Monumental irresponsibility drives post-1850 architecture says Stone
New York AP reports Edward Durell Stone criticizes modern design as lacking grace since 1850. He urges top-down leadership and deliberate planning to rebuild cities, calling for masterful art in architecture and efficient, economical execution. Stone clarifies his large practice focuses on formative stages and supervision.
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Now You're Married And Things Have Changed
HAL BOYLE reports on post wedding realities as couples adjust to shared life. The piece riffs on gifts, expectations, kitchen duties, finances, and the tensions of spousal roles, contrasting romantic myths with practical chores and long memories from family life.
The Circle in Washington A Circle of Wealth and Change
The Circle at Du Pont Circle once Washingtons fashionable heart is now a mix of chic clubs and run down spots. Beatniks and part time students mingle with police, narcotics arrests, and purse snatchings while Lady Bird Johnson visits a beauty shop. No. 15 Du Pont Circle hosts a private club once used by Calvin Coolidge and linked to FDRs death news. The area remains a crossroads for embassies and elites as longhairs, beatniks, and artists persist amid galleries offices and parking lots. The Connecticut Avenue Association proposed fencing the circle after nightfall to cope with crime and disorder.
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Movieton milestones mark early film history
On Oct 6 in history, Edison demonstrated the kinescoped motion picture in 1889, the Jazz Singer launched talking pictures in 1927, first German settlers arrived in Pennsylvania in 1983, and in 1945 the Post Office resumed limited U.S.-Europe mail service. Ten years ago eight men were convicted of the 1950 Brink's Boston robbery.
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