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An addition to Lemonade Susie's house?

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By David Brussat    Email

This Verizon commercial, here*, is hilarious. I wonder what it really says about the concept of success. In the ad, Susie has a lemonade stand in the front yard. Her dad, leaving for work, gives her a Verizon phone with......

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 Tags  Architecture   Business   David Brussat   Lemonade   Modern Architecture   Success   Verizon  

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Column: Mencken on 'The New Architecture'

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By David Brussat    Email

Above: H.L. Mencken lived almost his whole life in this Baltimore row house. (Courtesy of Baltimore Heritage) * * * H.L. Mencken on last day of Prohibition, in 1933 * * * The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington * *......

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 Tags  Architecture   Baltimore MD   H.L. Mencken   Le Corbusier   Modern Architecture   New York   The American Mercury   The New Architecture  

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Goodwin's article on my article on Beth-El: A reply

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By David Brussat    Email

Since George Goodwin, author of "The manifold meanings of synagogue architecture" on today's Journal op-ed page, was a primary source for my July 21 column "Save the old Shaare Zedek Temple," I am quite flattered that he read it......

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 Tags  Architecture   David Brussat   Erich Mendelsohn   George Goodwin   Jewish Architecture   Judaism   Percival Goodman   Rabbi Braude   Temple Beth-El  

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Not coming up: The Full Mencken

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By David Brussat    Email

This week's column was to have been a reprint of most of H.L. Mencken's essay "The New Architecture," from the The American Mercury, published in February 1931. But copyright law requires getting permission to copy any literary work not yet......

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 Tags  Architecture   Copyright   David Brussat   H.L. Mencken   Knopf   Modern Architecture   Random House   The American Mercury  

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