Yaddo exhibit offers glimpse inside haven Nov 5, 2008
As demonstrated by a ceiling-high tower of books at the exhibit, countless classics were worked on at Yaddo, from Highsmith's "Strangers on a Train" to Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint." Yaddo itself directly inspired Saul Bellow's satirical "Henderson the Rain King" and was the source for unique partnerships across the arts, including Ned Rorem's "Conversation," a composition based on an Elizabeth Bishop poem; David Diamond's "Twisted Trinity," a song cycle inspired in part by McCullers'... (CNN -- Showbiz)
Amenia: Hamlet plan 3 adopted Oct 31, 2008
"Invoking the memory and principles of Lewis Mumford, an Amenia resident and the renowned author of many classic books on urban and cultural history, architecture and regional planning, Dodson Associates recommends that the town adopt option one," Clarke wrote ... A number of residents spoke at the end of the meeting, including Wastewater Committee Chairwoman Darlene Reimer, who said that she was highly disappointed and now knew what Lewis Mumford felt like when the town board previously ignored... (Henrietta Post, NY)
UNCOMMON SENSE: The village university idea Oct 10, 2008
The school was the fruition of the Transcendentalist impulse, which, in the words of Lewis Mumford, had established Concord as the cultural center of the world in its century. For 10 summers, hundreds of participants, scholars, scientists, university presidents and fellow citizens from near and far, strove, together, to renew the vision upon which our country was founded. (Concord Journal, MA)
Alf Crossley: The Kootenays En Plei... Aug 22, 2008
Crossley's Abstract Impressionist-Expressionist style was honed at the Vancouver School of Art, under notable instructors Jack Shadbolt, Roy Kiyooka, Takao Tanabe, Bob Steele, Reg Holmes, Don Jarvis, and Lewis Mumford. He mainly works en plein air: outdoors in nature, not from photographs, in the Slocan Valley and near the Kootenay River around the urban triad of Nelson, Castlegar and New Denver. (Suite101.com)
County Planning chimes in on hamlet plan Aug 22, 2008
"Invoking the memory and principles of Lewis Mumford, an Amenia resident and the renowned author of many classic books on urban and cultural history, architecture and regional planning, Dodson Associates recommends that the town adopt option one," Clarke wrote. "(This option) most closely matches the recently adopted plan, zoning laws, and our views.". (Henrietta Post, NY)
What's in a Name? Jun 30, 2008
Stewart was born the same year as Lewis Mumford, 1895, and he shared Mumford's restless curiosity and the ease with which he wrote across different disciplines and genres. A scholar, novelist, travel writer, journalist, biographer, popular sociologist and ecologist, he may be best known for three other books: Ordeal by Hunger (1936), an account of the doomed Donner Party; Storm (1941), a novel about a horrific Pacific Ocean storm and its effects on man and environment, which is also the source... (Slate)
February 13, 2000 Jun 20, 2008
But the editor who hired Dorothy Parker and Edmund Wilson to review books, Louise Bogan to review poetry, Lewis Mumford to review architecture, Ring Lardner to review radio and Janet Flanner to review France, while overruling his own staff to publish Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography, needs no scholarly apology -- unless you grudge his missing the point of the Holocaust till Nuremburg. So you want the skinny on Si, Bob, Tina, Pauline and maybe even Michael Kinsley, that prince of dither. (Harper's Magazine)
Cycle of life and death May 17, 2008
Ghost bikes' are appearing on streets around the world to commemorate cyclists killed in accidents. Geoff Dyer applauds a 21st-century twist on the memorial. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Small town dreams big for project May 6, 2008
By , Staff Writer Monday, May 05, 2008. A Charleston group studying whether to build a visitor center/public agency offices is considering the U. S. Coast Guard housing in Charleston as a possible site. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
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The World Link: Small town dreams big for project. Small town dreams big for project. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Blood from oil Feb 17, 2008
Hoping for a court trial on the obscenity issue, Sinclair had already received testimonials in the book's defense from authors and public figures such as Lewis Mumford, Norman Thomas, and D.H. Lawrence. The officials ignored his grandstanding. (Boston Globe)
Suburbs attacked because middle-class hates plumbers in big houses Oct 27, 2007
Lewis Mumford, the most respected writer on cities of his time, was particularly contemptuous. He said Levittown was socially "backward", inhabited by "people of the same class, the same incomes, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mould manufactured in the same central metropolis.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
M. SCOTT MORRIS: The secret of life? The man says it's all in your head Oct 6, 2007
- "Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet." - Lewis Mumford. M. Scott Morris is a Daily Journal entertainment writer. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Past Perfect Aug 24, 2007
In an essay titled "," published in 1950 in this magazine, Lewis Mumford dismissed the living accommodations of upscale New Yorkers as little better than slums. "I sometimes wonder what self-hypnosis has led the well-to-do citizens of New York, for the last seventy-five years, to accept the quarters that are offered them with the idea that they are doing well by themselves," he wrote. (Disinformation)
Kuznick: A-Bomb Jul 30, 2007
Equally uncomprehending was General Mirza Aslam Berg, retired chief of Pakistan's armed forces, who dismissed fears of nuclear war between those two nuclear powers, commenting, "I don't know what you're worried about. You can die crossing the street, hit by a car, or you could die in a nuclear war. You've got to die someday, anyway."[87] Even more ominous is the Bush administration's 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, which virtually eliminates the distinction between nuclear and conventional weapons... (Zmag.org)
Levitate the Pentagon Jun 19, 2007
Then there was a book - The City in History by Lewis Mumford, in which the Pentagon is described as an ancient malignant structure that has to be destroyed to ensure a peaceful world. Magic realism met political theater. (Asia Times Online)
More than merely 'regional' Mar 22, 2007
" Serraino, who studied architecture in Rome and Los Angeles and now practices in the Bay Area, spent four years researching the book. (Chronicle Books is not affiliated with The Chronicle.) He interviewed NorCal's surviving modernist architects of the postwar period, as well as critics, and combed through photography archives. The book chronicles 101 midcentury modernist projects in the region, of which 73 are residential. During the mid-1940s, California was considered "the epicenter of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Paul Goldberger on Robert Moses Jan 29, 2007
Some critics, like Jacobs and Lewis Mumford, were complaining that highways damaged urban neighborhoods, but most people didn t see this until long after the damage had been done ... Lewis Mumford, writing in this magazine in 1959, described the fight to ban traffic from Washington Square as a heartening sign of the way in which a stir of intelligence and feeling not only can rally far more support than one would expect. (New Yorker)
