Essays
… it deeply, and in adopting the Angeleno constitution I’ve come to embrace an abiding concern with appearances. I don’t … today’s best-known architect, Frank Gehry, who has studied Lautner’s work closely, once called him “a god.” The … recent years—through architecture-fan blogs and real-estate websites such as Curbed LA; museum exhibitions; the opening …
… a Nazi internee, and special assistant to the U.S. Commandant, Berlin. Behind us was Lord Norman Foster’s big … With rafts bearing camouflage netting Berlin defenders had also changed the shoreline of some of the city’s lakes. As … new shows on the surface, and the old concourse is becoming a huge mall. Nearby, a further part of an invisible …
… and built for herself a territory that begins to compare with the best favored sections of the country. But … Republican victory would endanger white supremacy. True also, the masses of the Southern people have made little … fast losing the provincialism that has long been hers and becoming an integrated, if indeed not a standardized, part of …
… to give: “If it hadn’t been for the civil rights people coming here, maybe I wouldn’t have worried; maybe I would … district chooses to use a teaxtbook other than the ones recommended, it may do so at its own expense. In one of our … what they read, in hopes of “separating truth from falsehood.” They are reminded to ask themselves about any …
Human Practice
… by the desire to eliminate sugar—all refined sugar—from my diet. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t the best time to add … was beginning—after the years of sleep deprivation that come with medical training and being a parent—to show signs … choices: to open this door or that window. But there is also a flip side to that freedom: the power to say no. To …
… of tennis, or even skating—though in this last he might become a part of the decorative ensemble, as he would wish to … an American and a contemporary of his, who was also to die in a far-off, foreign place, still in his twenties—how … his voice “literary,” and most of his emotions and viewpoints had their foundations in some book or other. And that …