Republic of the Air

Republic of the Air

Robert Wohl

concourses of today's airports on our way to catch a plane, how many of us pause to think that we are about to undertake an essentially aesthetic and moral experience? Yet only 60 years ago Western culture, high and low, celebrated aviation in just such terms. Hollywood's big studios glamourized the miracle of flight in a spate of star- studded films. Charles Lindbergh acquired the divine sobriquet "the new Christ." And the Modernist architect and aty planner Le Corbusier proclaimed...

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