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Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 627 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>

I met Erich Segal in 1959, in a Harvard University graduate-school dorm. It was in Richards Hall, designed in the early ’50s by Walter Gropius, which Erich said only proved that “great men” could do desultory work. He was doing his graduate work in classics and comparative literature, and I in government. Of course, he knew more, much more, about my field than I did about his. In fact, he was rapacious in his pursuit of knowledge. And cheerfully intent about music and song. He was a man of traditional culture ... READ MORE >>

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Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity Museum of Modern Art Kandinsky Guggenheim Museum READ MORE >>

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Modern architecture died on April 21, 1972. Few architects noticed. The public did not care. No one mourned. It was never popular. READ MORE >>