By Alec Wilkinson The New Yorker, September 20 , 1982P. 29 Resourcefulness is never lacking in this city.
To date, there is no evidence the new breed has the same resourcefulness displayed by the Fawcetts and Foudys and, oh yes, the Chastains of yesteryear.
In time, no doubt, if she were to visit a place frequently, she would gradually become more familiar with it, but this would be an almost unimaginably complex challenge, demanding great patience and resourcefulness, a whole new enterprise of categorization and memorization.
Her current form of identification, a United States passport from 2002, reveals a slim and bright-eyed woman who was, she said, "active and outgoing" and who had, as an immigrant, shown a determined resourcefulness in adapting to her new country.
In it, curators Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon selected 12 visionary American architectural practices to produce new work that demonstrates the creativity and resourcefulness of architecture that addresses the social and urban issues of Detroit in the 21st century.
In the face of a new situation the American shows a far greater linguistic resourcefulness and daring than the Englishman.
Taylor's book is both a paean to American resourcefulness and a staunch defense of the New Deal, but, despite the author's admiration, F.D.R., with his top-hatted optimism and patrician eloquence, comes off as an anachronism, while Hoover, in his cynicism ("The world lives by phrases") and naïveté ("Nobody is actually starving"), looks modern by comparison.
In other instances the response had more to do with the extremes of imagination and resourcefulness demonstrated by Dan Trueman and Steven Mackey, the composers of two new pieces on the program.
As shelter magazines foundered, up came a new breed of self-curating, design-smart amateurs spurred to resourcefulness by the recession and assisted by the Internet in finding materials and furnishings at deep discounts.
