Behind Gmail was an astonishing technological triumph. The cost of storage was collapsing. In 1985, a gigabyte of hard drive memory cost around $75,000. By 1995, it was around $750. Come 2004 — the year Gmail began — it was a few dollars. Today, it’s less than a penny. Now Gmail offers 15 gigabytes free. What a marvel. What a mess.
But Professor Kennan, who has been associated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1953, said in a telephone interview from his office that he is looking forward to the arrival of a new generation in Washington. "I have been heartened by what I have seen and heard said by Mr. Clinton, his actions and statements during the interregnum," he continued. "This is not in the way of comparison: in foreign affairs there were several things that I admired about the Bush Administration." But he is glad to see "younger people coming in, who listen to others."---此篇書評
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Known as the George Sturges Residence, the property is also the only Usonian dwelling Wright constructed in L.A.
Science: Usonian Architect
About four miles from Spring Green, Wis., the hills splay into two soft ranges to let a fast stream flow toward the Wisconsin River. Facing southwest over this valley a big, long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone ...
About four miles from Spring Green, Wis., the hills splay into two soft ranges to let a fast stream flow toward the Wisconsin River. Facing southwest over this valley a big, long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone that crops out in ledges along the stream. Under snow the house melts easily into the landscape. Its name is Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning
"shining brow." Its history is one of tragic irony. Its character is one...
Companies are generally not good at changing their chiefs. However, the fact that the CEO will eventually have to go is one of the few “known knowns” in business. Monarchies have always understood the importance of avoiding interregnums: the king is dead, long live the king! Why have some of the world’s most sophisticated organisations failed to grasp this simple truth? http://econ.st/1rsrPlE
Usonian
→ adj. relating to the United States (the Usonian city).
relating to or denoting the style of buildings designed in the 1930s by Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959), characterised by inexpensive construction and flat roofs.
"Usonian" redirects here. For the alternative name for a United States citizen, see Names for United States citizens § Alternative terms.
Usonia /juːˈsoʊniə/ was a word used by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to his vision for the landscape of the United States, including the planning of cities and the architecture of buildings. Wright proposed the use of the adjective Usonian in place of American to describe the particular New World character of the American landscape as distinct and free of previous architectural conventions.
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'Usonian' is a term usually referring to a group of approximately sixty middle-income family homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright beginning in 1936 with the Jacobs House.[1]The "Usonian Homes" are typically small, single-story dwellings without a garage or much storage. They are often L-shaped to fit around a garden terrace on unusual and inexpensive sites. They are characterized by native materials; flat roofs and large cantilevered overhangs for passive solar heating and natural cooling; natural lighting withclerestory windows; and radiant-floor heating. A strong visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces is an important characteristic of all Usonian homes. The wordcarport was coined by Wright to describe an overhang for sheltering a parked vehicle.
Variants of the Jacobs House design are still in existence today.[citation needed] The Usonian design is considered among the aesthetic origins of the ranch-style house popular in the American west of the 1950s.[citation needed]
In 2013, Florida Southern College constructed the 13th Wright building on their campus according to plans that he created in 1939. The 1,700 sq. ft. building includes textile-block construction, colored glass in perforated concrete blocks, Wright photographs, a documentary film about the architect's work at the school, and furniture designed by Wright. Named the "Usonian House," it was originally designed as one of twenty faculty housing units. The building is home to the Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center, a visitor center for guests visiting campus to see the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings.[2]
Origin of the word[edit]
The word Usonian appears to have been coined by James Duff Law, an American writer born in 1865. In a miscellaneous collection entitled, Here and There in Two Hemispheres (1903), Law quoted a letter of his own (dated June 18, 1903) that begins "We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title 'Americans' when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves." He went on to acknowledge that some author had proposed "Usona", but that he preferred the form "Usonia".[3] Perhaps the earliest published use by Wright was in 1927:
However, this is a misattribution, as Butler never used the word.
It has become the established name for the United States in Esperanto.[4] The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, used Usono in his speech at the 1910 World Congress of Esperanto in Washington, D.C., coincidentally the same year Wright was in Europe.
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado reclaims the term Usonian to refer to the peoples, national ideology and neo-imperial tradition of the United States of America.[5]
Miguel Torres-Castro uses the term Usonian to refer to the origin of the Atlantic Puffin bird used in the children's book "Jupu the Puffin: A Usonian Story". The bird is a puffin from Maine, USA.[6]
interregnum[in・ter・reg・num]
- 発音記号[ìntərrégnəm]
[名]（複〜s, -na 〔-n
〕）
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1 君主［元首］不在期間；（内閣更迭などによる）政治の空白期間；（会社・組織などの）トップ不在期間.
2 （一般に）中絶, 空白（期間）.(ĭn'tər-rĕg'nəm)
n., pl., -nums, or -na (-nə).
- The interval of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of a successor.
- A period of temporary suspension of the usual functions of government or control.
- A gap in continuity.
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