As the articles, speeches, interviews, and books included here attest, the 1940s was a busy and honor-filled decade for America's most famous architect: Fallingwater and the Johnson Wax administration building were completed; the American Institute of Architects awarded him its Gold Medal; and he was commissioned to design New York's Guggenheim Museum. Wright (18671959) wrote and spoke against America's involvement in WW II at every opportunity; he also opposed the increasingly popular International Style in architecture. Connoisseurs of advanced nay-saying will enjoy his often ranting rhetoric (``in this prevailing atmosphere made by a false architecture, a phony political system, and education for some purpose or other which I have never been able to understand because it certainly is not on speaking terms with Culture'') and note that behind even the most overheated statements usually lurks the germ of a good idea. Reprints of Books Five and Six of Wright's revised Autobiography and of his fascinating tribute to Louis Sullivan, Genius and the Mobocracy, are particularly welcome. The photos and illustrations (many in color) are handsome, but they can only enhance, never compete with, the drama of Wright's words.
Pub Date: Jan. 5, 1995
ISBN: 0-8478-1803-9
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Rizzoli
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 1994
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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