Tag post-war

August 20, 2010
in Humanities

Eero Saarinen at 100

August 20, 2010
in Humanities

Today marks the 100th birthday of Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect whose work both reflected and defined a post-World War II American national aesthetic. Saarinen, who passed away in 1961, was born on August 20, 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland, a few miles southwest of Helsinki. Saarinen’s father, Eliel, was a

February 11, 2008
in Current Affairs, Economics, History, Humanities, Political Science, Social Science

Yale Press authors explore Broadway, investigate Roswell, and report on Latin America

February 11, 2008
in Current Affairs, Economics, History, Humanities, Political Science, Social Science

Especially in these winter months, it’s hard to imagine a world without “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and other classic Frank Loesser tunes. Mark Steyn, reviewing Thomas L. Riis’ Frank Loesser for the Wall Street Journal, realizes that “a world without Frank Loesser and ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ would be very