Sunday, March 20, 2005
New York World's Fair Nostalgia
Thanks to PowerLine Blog for this Post on the 1939-40 New York World's Fair Power Line:World's Fair . My parents attended it and it made a huge impression on them; as I remember from many conversations. Lot's of interesting links here.
Although I can't recall them discussing a major theme in Professor Hart's terms : "Second, however, was the fact that the fair's planners were ideological democrats who wanted to assert democratic values against the looming challenges of fascism and the communism."
Nor being so impressed as Professor Hart was by the emotional juxtaposition of Trylon and Perisphere with that of the Soviet pavillion and it's towering sculpture of a Soviet worker.
Although I can't recall them discussing a major theme in Professor Hart's terms : "Second, however, was the fact that the fair's planners were ideological democrats who wanted to assert democratic values against the looming challenges of fascism and the communism."
Nor being so impressed as Professor Hart was by the emotional juxtaposition of Trylon and Perisphere with that of the Soviet pavillion and it's towering sculpture of a Soviet worker.
