Tonight on PBS I watched a fascinating biography of Frank Lloyd
Wright, with ole pictures & film reels, timely music, and cool,
colorful narration

It is another masterful Ken Burns creation & including neatly narrated
by the actor Edward Herman

I presume one could also watch it via puter at

www.pbs.org

This "genius" lived a long, sometimes very controversial life, and the
biography I skimmed in Wikipedia is okay though blah to Ken Burns'
version

"The architect hero Howard Roark of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
is widely considered to have been based on Wright.[32]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_lloyd_wright

He wrote 20 books, many articles, and is considered as the "greatest
American architect" by an architect professional group, tho Fullerites
may think domeferly/differently

And he's partly descended from Welsh named "Jones," born in Wisconsin
in the mid 19th century, died 1959

Central Florida has a lot of Wright's buildings in one place at some
college.

Bret Cahill

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On Aug 22, 1:08 am, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

Florida Southern in Lakeland, as per the wiki artcle

On Aug 22, 6:52 am, "Tim" q.con> wrote:

Robert Cohen schreef:

As I recall the leading person in the book rapes a woman, because that
is what she really wants....

It's hard to tell if agents of change are like that because they are
inherently less constrained by the norms of society or because after
-- or before if it's anticipitated -- they are widely villified they
are less inclined to humor the rest of society. Or some combination
of the above.

Or maybe they are like everyone else in most respects and it just
seems surprising for them to have the same issues. A commentator
originally confused by Steinbeck's marriages finally concluded, "he
was just a really good writer."

In any event they often give their enemies plenty of ammunition that
blows up in their faces.

Several years before Monica some articulate "wag" noted that the
Clinton administration trying to manage scandals was like trying to
keep puppies in a basket.

It's hard to imagine anything with a broader sappy political appeal
than a basket of puppies.

Bret Cahill

On Aug 22, 10:36 am, Leon Hoeneveld
wrote: