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Column: Cole Porter, meet George Orwell

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Scene from a 1956 version of the novel 1984 (1949); below, Cole Porter; George Orwell; an example of Bausünden in Germany * * * The world has gone mad today And good's bad today, And black's white......

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 Tags  1984   Architecture   Charles Hawley   Cole Porter   Der Spiegel   George Orwell   Germany   Modernism  

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Coming up: The German modernists counterattack

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By David Brussat    Email

Readers of this blog were entertained a week or so ago by word of the German modernists' reaction, apparently, to Der Spiegel's long article on how much Germans dislike the architecture inflicted upon the nation by its postwar leadership.......

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 Tags  Architecture   Daniel Libeskind   Der Spiegel   Germany   Modernism   Orwell  

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