The war between the sexes hit its stride before the species rethought its complexity on male female roles. So much so that many human beings were no longer sure of their identity.
As thou the military “don’t ask don’t tell” wrought its havoc with battlefield fatigue and
male chauvinism.
Audie Murphy’s “Red Badge of Courage” Stephan Crane. imagining the hostility between Abe Lincoln’s weary troops and General Lee‘s led rebs.
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In this parable.... irreparable harm did not manifest itself in the Cornell School of Architecture, nor the construction of Ucla’s Research Library as visualized by A. Quincy Jones, his name resounding with Quincy Jones of the Johnny Green Andre Previn whiz kids at neighboring MGM’s studio..
A. Quincy tapped into his pedigree.
”Names that make America”
III
A visionary planner in the Southern California basin, his reputation exceeded himself to Ithica,
New York and Cornell, where the late Harold Edelman nicknamed his roommate “Quincy” “
No ten minutes of fame but a lifetime of hearing the Bard’s barbs “Thirty lashes with a ‘t’ square.”
Frank Lloyd Wright in his “ An Autobiography” spoke about his plans growing and extending
from nature....
Harold Edelman’s first ranch style home with his wife, Judy at Stony Brook, outside Paul Newman’s Westport.,his wive’s “Three faces of Eve’..Joanne Woodwad.
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The London School of standards penalized “batch” professors. Holding back their sterling pounds and shillings. But once old fashioned nuptials and blessings were exchanged, the Deans abandoned Bertrand Russell’s free love for a Bill of Rights and bourgeois bliss
Perhaps our tired planet longs for royalty fever in the ever constant of moral anguish and despair Colonel Khadafi’s foreign minister seeking refuge in London in tune with Prince William’s own nuptials with his “Kate”.
The convolutions of a soap opera ... the monarchy’s cheerleaders stomping on those hallowed grounds of Westminister Abby, tripping down that road.... puts the “King’s speech”
in a bumper crop of afficionados
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So playing the field is grounded at the graduate level, the A. Quincy Jones’s Harold
Edelmans are recognized for challenging the t squares and modules of their turf,
Their dream list of stipends for their ringed third finger left hand femme profs.
Whether this amounts to an affront for same sex marriages, no one knows the futuro. But for the moment, the space age and its information highway can
join strides in their Easter Parade.
Right A.Quincy? Harold Edelman?
Right.
Ucla’s Research Library, Cornell School of Architecture, March 30 2011.
