| 单词 | Burnham |
| 例句 | “Daniel Hudson Burnham was one of the handsomest men I ever saw,” said Paul Starrett, later to lead construction of the Empire State Building; he joined Burnham & Root in 1888 as an all-purpose helper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Millet had some extraordinary ideas for events in August, including an elaborate Midway ball during which fair officials, including Burnham, would dance with Dahoman women and Algerian belly dancers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That day Burnham wrote to a Chicago architect named W. W. Boyington: “Mr. Root is quite low, and there is uncertainty about his recovery, but still a chance for him.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Despite increasing committee interference and intensified conflict between Burnham and Director-General Davis, and with the threat of labor strikes ever present, the main buildings rose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham tried to anticipate every conceivable threat to the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To find ways to accelerate the work, Burnham called the eastern architects to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Despite Pullman’s vestibules ice as fine as dust settled between coaches and filled Burnham’s train with the tang of deep winter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Everywhere there is growing interest in the Exposition,” he told Burnham in a June 20 letter from Biltmore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Three days later another large Chicago bank failed, and soon after that a third, the Evanston National Bank, in Burnham’s town. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With equal discretion, the committee assured Burnham and Root that ultimately they would direct the design and construction of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He liked Burnham and approved of the marriage, but he did not entirely trust the young architect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had asked Olmsted to join him for the meeting, aware that in New York the landscape architect’s reputation exerted a force like gravity, but Olmsted could not get away. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A long letter of protest arrived at Burnham’s office, signed by some of the nation’s leading engineers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and his firm went on to build scores of other structures, among them the Gimbel’s department store in New York, Filene’s in Boston, and the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham knew, however, that the fair’s size was just one element of the challenge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Millet had lobbied strongly for Henry Bacon of New York, and Burnham believed that his earlier talk to the Lincoln Commission had been persuasive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For Burnham, each lost moment was a theft from the already scanty fund of time allotted to build the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z First and foremost, Burnham knew, the fair had to be finished, but in the meantime lures had to be cast to encourage people to shed their fears of financial ruin and come to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I was urging everyone on, knowing I had an awful fight against time,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s possible even that Burnham received a card, given his new prominence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Henceforth, Burnham ordered, all carpentry work was to be done only by men employed by the fair’s contractors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So Burnham wrote letters, and wrote them often. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Root saw Burnham, he said, “You won’t leave me again, will you?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had awarded the boat concession to a company called the Electric Launch and Navigation Company, which had produced a lovely electric vessel of exactly the character Olmsted wanted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Davis’s testimony carried with it the unstated accusation that Burnham and Baker had inflated the amount of money needed to complete the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The architects were stunned: “they gazed,” Burnham said, “with a feeling almost of despair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Everyone was thinking in terms of towers, but Burnham, for one, did not think a tower was the best approach. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Root, the new architecture stripped away incidental ornamentation. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet Burnham knew that such expenditures, as well as continued spending on police, garbage removal, and maintenance of roads and lawns, was vital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ellsworth concluded that Root’s death “brought out qualities in Mr. Burnham which might not have developed, as early anyway, had Mr. Root lived.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The next day, after what surely had been a difficult night, Dora Root wrote to Burnham to thank him for the tour and to attempt to convey the complexity of her feelings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham, too, allowed himself a moment of celebration. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham ordered all designs strengthened to withstand the highest winds recorded over the previous ten years. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham, stunned, summoned one of the exposition surgeons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For Burnham personally the fair had been an unqualified triumph. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “When the Fair opened,” said Paul Starrett, one of Burnham’s men, “Olmsted’s lawns were the first amazement.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In his dawn tours, Burnham faced a hard pale world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A rising union man named Samuel Gompers stopped by Burnham’s office to discuss allegations that the exposition discriminated against union workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and President Baker expected a general review but instead found themselves grilled about the most mundane expenses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This new surge underscored for Burnham the urgency of completing his plan to pipe Waukesha spring water to the fair by Opening Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He attributed this circumstance to Burnham: “too high an estimate cannot be placed on the industry, skill and tact with which this result was secured by the master of us all.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Here, Burnham realized, contractors would have to drive piles at least down to hard-pan, an expensive complication and a source of additional delay. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For all Burnham’s obsession with detail and control, one event at the fair escaped his attention. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In private communication Olmsted and Codman agreed that Burnham was a man they could work with. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root realized that Jenney’s innovation freed builders from the last physical constraints on altitude. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That year Burnham bought an old farmhouse on the lake in the quiet village of Evanston, called by some “the Athens of suburbs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The janitors could not use the elevators because Burnham had ordered them turned off after dark to conserve power for the fair’s nightly illuminations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sullivan saw it as a sign that Burnham did not truly believe Chicago had the talent to carry the fair by itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Everywhere Burnham turned there was someone—a friend, an editor, a fellow club member—telling him that the nation expected something tremendous out of this fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham thought it obvious that the territory belonged to him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ordinarily it was in situations like this that Burnham could be most effective. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham saw that Olmsted’s work was far behind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Director-General Davis was to lead a quadrille, Burnham a “Berlin,” Mayor Harrison a polka. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham said no, but he did leave, to check on Root’s wife, who was in a neighboring room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now and then he and Burnham caught each other’s glances. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In December 1891 Burnham received a proposal from a tugboat manufacturer arguing the case for steam launches at the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham became an avid player of bridge, though he was known widely for being utterly inept at the game. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, she wrote a long letter to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This is where the Burnham students go after school to smoke and to drink glasses of Coca-Cola with maraschino cherries in them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The Union Stock Yards commissioned Burnham’s firm to build a new passenger depot at its entrance, to manage the expected crush of fairgoers seeking a crimson break from the White City. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham’s mandatory muster of key men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While aboard the train, Burnham wrote a letter to Olmsted that contained a less-than-candid description of the meeting with the architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On this score Burnham had no plan other than somehow to surpass Eiffel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As the last sunlight of the day entered Burnham’s suite, he and Margaret set off for the first-class dining room on the deck below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Burnham had believed that he might best serve his country by placing all of the work exclusively with Eastern architects,” Sullivan wrote; “solely, he averred, on account of their surpassing culture.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Unbelievably, despite Olmsted’s hectoring, Burnham still seemed to consider steam-powered launches an acceptable choice for the exposition’s boat service. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He is all over the grounds, about all sorts of business, and Mr. Burnham & every head of Department is constantly calling for ‘Ulrich!’ The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The man was Daniel Hudson Burnham, and by now his name was familiar throughout the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z No one told Burnham about the fire, no one told him of the cancellations, and no one told him of Murphy’s forecast. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Last night turned out the most terrible storm we have had in Jackson Park,” Burnham wrote Margaret on Thursday. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Success came easily to Burnham and Root, but the partners did have their trials. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As Burnham talked with her, a relative also entered the room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham issued stern directives to Olmsted and Ferris and to every contractor still at work. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Disease, too, posed dangers to the fair, Burnham knew. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The architects arrived in Chicago late Friday night, January 9, and took carriages to the Wellington Hotel, where Burnham had arranged rooms for all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Footsore and irritable, Burnham demanded that the steward return to the wireless room for an explanation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He introduced himself instead to Burnham and gave his name as John B. Sherman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What had frightened Burnham, at first, was the apparent insubstantiality of the design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As for Olmsted, Burnham was struck by the slightness of his frame, which seemed structurally insufficient to support so massive a skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Other cities came to Daniel Burnham for citywide plans, among them Fort Worth, Atlantic City, and St. Louis, but he turned them down to concentrate on his last plan, for the city of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had devoted the last two years of his life to creating an impression of monumental beauty, and now Olmsted wanted to make visitors laugh. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All these, however, were mere distractions compared to the single most important task on Burnham’s roster: the selection of architects to design the fair’s major buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham, however, believed from the start that the fair’s workers and visitors needed a better, safer supply. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham again wrote to Boyington: “am able this morning to give you a little better report. He has passed a pretty good night and is easier. While the danger is not over, we are hopeful.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Burnham was not pleased,” wrote Louis Sullivan, by now Adler’s partner, “nor was John Root precisely entranced.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The room was still as death,” Burnham said, “save for the low voice of the speaker commenting on his design. It seemed as if a great magnet held everyone in its grasp.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Burnhams dined by themselves in the Olympic's first-class salon, then retired to their suite and there, for no particular reason, Burnham’s thoughts returned to Frank Millet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Burnham read Olmsted’s letter, he must have thought Olmsted had lost his mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was handsome, tall, and strong, with vivid blue eyes, all of which drew clients and friends to him the way a lens gathers light. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham waited an hour, then left to catch his train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But Burnham also created an office culture that anticipated that of businesses that would not appear for another century. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham, obsessing as always over details, sought to decree the style and location of a fence for the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham’s older brother had forged checks and wounded their father’s wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After asserting that “the architects of America had covered themselves with glory” through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation’s civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Here at last, Burnham saw, was a man who understood the true cost of each lost minute. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For Burnham and the exposition directors, this wave of financial damage was troubling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham closed, “We are all well and satisfied with the amount and variety of work our good fortune has given us to do.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham knew that together he and Root had reached a level of success that neither could have achieved on his own. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “They propose an outdoor exhibit of their temples and, as has been usual, they desire space on the wooded island,” Burnham wrote in February 1892. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The source of Burnham’s greatest dismay was the failure of the architects to finish their drawings on schedule. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In that first, brutal winter Burnham’s photographer, Charles Arnold, took a very different series of photographs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While Millet did his planning, many of the other men who had helped Burnham construct the fair began the return to ordinary life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They asked Burnham to apply the same citywide thinking that had gone into the White City to their own cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham claimed the agreement was a victory for the exposition, but in fact the fair’s concessions were a breakthrough for organized labor, and the resulting contracts became models for other unions to emulate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham knew that placing the future of the fair in the hands of bankers would mean its certain failure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In March Burnham ordered Dion Geraldine, his chief construction superintendent, to press the matter “with the utmost vigor and see that no delay occurs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If the fair failed, Burnham knew, the nation’s honor would be tarnished, Chicago humiliated, and his own firm dealt a crushing blow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hastily, Root and Burnham conferred and chose five Chicago firms to join the effort, among them Adler & Sullivan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The visit rekindled his concern that in the quest to surpass the Paris exposition Burnham and his architects had lost sight of what a world’s fair ought to be. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He hoped the demolition would be quick, and he quoted a recent remark by Burnham: “‘Let it go; it has to go, so let it go. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Within Jackson Park the sudden shift from sunlight to darkness drew Burnham outside. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even so, Burnham knew, much of the fair would have to be ready for the dedication. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham knew exactly whom he wanted to hire but was less aware of how incendiary his selections would prove. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As each architect unrolled his drawings, “the tension of feeling was almost painful,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I could not, however, take this view,” Burnham wrote in a letter to James Dredge, editor of the influential British magazine Engineering. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Olmsted, for his part, knew that Burnham had been a leading force in driving buildings into the clouds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Codman sent Olmsted a copy of the letter, adding his own note that the tugboat maker seemed to enjoy Burnham’s confidence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The building was a private venture: Burnham had nothing to do with its construction beyond approving its design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To Burnham, Codman seemed amazingly young, late twenties at the most. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Arnold’s photograph of the aftermath showed a Lilliputian man, possibly Burnham, standing before a great mound of shattered wood and tangled steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only Louis Sullivan: embittered, perfumed with alcohol, resenting who knew what, but not above coming by Burnham’s office for a loan or to sell some painting or sketch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z George Post persuaded him at least to hear what Burnham had to say, arguing that if Hunt stood down, the others would feel pressed to do likewise, for such was Hunt’s influence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The forest of Burnham Beeches stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately these setbacks proved to be minor ones for Burnham and Root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Somehow, despite his powers of anticipation, Burnham failed to realize that Chicago might see his choices as betrayal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The common perception had always been that Burnham managed the business side of the firm, while Root did all the designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The school we go to is called Burnham High School. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A friend told Burnham, “The scene burst on me with the beauty of a full blown rose.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In December, though he lacked an official mandate to do so, Burnham secretly mailed inquiries to five men, “feeling confident that I would carry my point.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Originally Burnham wanted Adler & Sullivan to design the fair’s Music Hall, but partly out of a continued sense of having been wronged by Burnham, the partners had turned the project down. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Everywhere Burnham looked he saw rail tracks and temporary roads, empty boxcars and packing crates. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham of course knew of Olmsted’s achievements: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the grounds of Cornell and Yale, and scores of other projects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The conflict between Burnham and Davis again flared to life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham’s dream. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In his greatest vote of confidence, he asked Burnham & Root to build an entry portal for the Union Stock Yards that would reflect the yards’ growing importance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In advancing the work so quickly and on such a grand scale, Burnham’s department had consumed far more money than anyone had anticipated. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham treasured beauty but saw none for miles and miles and miles, just coal, rust, and smoke in endless repetition until the train entered the prairie and everything seemed to go quiet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And that initial loss, which Burnham still found difficult to comprehend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He was a brooding sort of man and very cranky,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In his private practice Burnham was accustomed to having complete control over expenditures needed to build his skyscrapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At about four o’clock Thursday afternoon Codman and Burnham drove to Root’s house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I object to any such remarks addressed to a witness before this committee,” the chairman said, “and I will ask that Mr. Burnham withdraw his remark.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One such evening Burnham led a tour of the fair aboard an electric launch for a group that included John Root’s widow, Dora, and a number of foreign emissaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He cabled Luther Rice, “...Burnham nor anyone else has any right to dictate whether we shall have a closed or open fence, any more than from an artistic standpoint.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Which is not to say that Burnham wanted to sit down. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In that structure, Burnham said, “our originality began to show.... It was a wonder. Everybody went to see it, and the town was proud of it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had come prepared to admire the grand achievement of Burnham’s army of workers but instead found himself troubled by what he saw in the stark frozen landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “In two or three days,” Burnham wrote, “all the birds will be in the water, which already commences to be still more beautiful than last year.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The electric launch carrying Burnham, Dora Root, and the foreign dignitaries cut silently through the lagoon, scattering the white city reflected upon its surface. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The album was a collection of construction photographs taken by Charles Dudley Arnold, a photographer from Buffalo, New York, whom Burnham had hired as the fair’s official photographer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root clearly favored one location in particular: Jackson Park, on Chicago’s South Side, due east of Englewood on the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham hoped for an early cure to the nation’s financial malaise, but the economy did not oblige. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham rose to offer the men a formal welcome, but he did not seem at ease. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Root’s death had crushed Burnham, but it also freed him to become a broader, better architect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham immediately went to Margaret’s father to break the engagement, on grounds the courtship could not continue in the shadow of scandal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham’s clear relief suggests that his earlier bravado might have been just for show. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The dismissed men, Burnham knew, faced homelessness and poverty; their families confronted the real prospect of starvation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had shown them himself, in Chicago, through the hardest sort of work. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham now possessed formal authority to begin building a fair, but he still had no place to put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some of the engineers took offense; others acknowledged that Burnham had a point. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bloom took his concerns to Exposition President Baker, who turned him over to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The twin, Burnham knew, was at that moment carrying one of his closest friends, the painter Francis Millet, over the same ocean but in the opposite direction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Publicly Burnham struck a pose of confidence and optimism. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It was one of those cold winter days,” Burnham recalled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was bothered, too, by the noise of the few steam vessels that Burnham, over his repeated objections, had authorized to travel the exposition’s waters alongside the electric launches. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Soon afterward Burnham dispatched letters to all his department heads, including Olmsted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like the other members of the Saturday Afternoon Club, he expected to hear Burnham discuss the challenges of building an entire city on such a short schedule, but Burnham surprised him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham described his vision of a fair larger and grander than the Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The men left the banquet hall that night united like soldiers in a campaign,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had all but given up hope of surpassing the Eiffel Tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Under customary procedures, Burnham and the others would have been placed under arrest pending bail, but in this instance even the coroner’s office seemed taken aback. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was decisive, blunt, and cordial; he spoke under a level blue gaze that Olmsted found reassuring. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Olmsted returned to Chicago accompanied by his usual troika of affliction and found the place galvanized, Burnham everywhere at once. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham looked forward to evenings on the grounds when his lieutenants and visiting architects would gather for dinner at the shanty and converse into the night in front of Burnham’s immense fireplace. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The architects approved the original brown-paper plan fashioned by Burnham, Olmsted, and Root with few changes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This lodging quickly became known as “the shanty,” though it had a large fireplace and an excellent wine cellar stocked by Burnham himself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In August, Burnham’s chief structural engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, made a startling disclosure: He had failed to calculate wind loads for the fair’s main buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was clear from the start that the committee’s primary target was Burnham’s Department of Works. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even the carpenters’ strike did not trouble Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Afterward Davis and Burnham remained at the club arguing quietly until five o’clock the next morning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It froze water lines and hydrants and drove workers to break Burnham’s ban on smoking and open flame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rim arced through the sky at a height of 264 feet, as high as the topmost occupied floor in Burnham’s Masonic Temple, the city’s tallest skyscraper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It rains,” Burnham wrote to Margaret, on Tuesday, April 18, “and for the first time I say, let it. My roofs are in such good order at last, as to leaks we care little.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just as Burnham had feared, union leaders began using the future fair as a vehicle for asserting such goals as the adoption of a minimum wage and an eight-hour day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It was questioned by many if the loss of Mr. Root was not irreparable,” wrote James Ellsworth in a letter to Burnham’s biographer, Charles Moore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z During the meeting Hunt—the architect Burnham most hoped to recruit—announced that he would not participate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The fair was to be Burnham’s redemption, and Chicago’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Louis saw it done repeatedly, and at first was amazed at Burnham’s effrontery, only to be more amazingly amazed at the drooling of the recipient. The method was crude but it worked.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham’s own firm saw the flow of new commissions come to a halt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham’s health began to decline early in the twentieth century, when he was in his fifties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham assured them that ample time remained but that he had no illusions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham, partly to keep the peace, also urged Olmsted to accept it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was the first clear evidence that Chicago might have created something extraordinary after all, and it renewed Burnham’s hopes that the fair at last would achieve the level of attendance he had hoped for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At first everyone attributed their absence to a routine railroad delay, but as the hours passed, Burnham’s anxiety grew. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On August 24 the executive committee named Burnham director of works. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In their offices in the top floor of the Rookery, Daniel Burnham, forty-three, and his partner, John Root, newly forty, felt the electricity more keenly than most. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As Burnham wrote this letter, his sons were near at hand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Aboard the Olympic Burnham waited for more news of Frank Millet and his ship. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Starrett recalled being moved by Burnham’s frequent admonition: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Their insistence prompted Burnham to telegraph Olmsted immediately and urge him once again to come. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just blocks from the Rookery, Burnham & Root’s Temperance Building stood huge and black and largely empty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As each set came in, Burnham advertised for bids. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To make sure these properties were constant throughout the park, Burnham had his chief engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, test locations earmarked for other buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A murderer had moved among the beautiful things Burnham had created. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only a modest train ride separated the Burnhams, but the mounting demands of the fair made that distance as difficult to span as the Isthmus of Panama. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In its raw state, Burnham knew, it was not a setting likely to win anyone’s heart. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every newspaper in the city, other than his own Times, opposed Harrison, as did Burnham and most of Chicago’s leading citizens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was Louis Sullivan who first and most loudly condemned the fair’s influence on architecture, but only late in his life and long after Burnham’s death. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Without consulting Burnham, Davis gave an estimate ten percent below the amount Burnham had calculated for President Baker, which Baker had then included in his own statement to investigators. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On March 14 Burnham joined Davis for dinner with Japan’s delegate to the fair, at the Chicago Club. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I get wind of much misplaced criticism, by men as clever even as Burnham, because of impressions from incomplete work and undeveloped compositions,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To Sullivan, Hunt was merely a relic, Burnham something far more dangerous. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They reached the shanty, Burnham wrote to Margaret, “just in time to hear Col. Rice tell some yarns about the war and life in the plains among the scouts and Indians.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham shifted his leg, winced, and waited for more news. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He returned a few moments later, the message still in his hand, and told Burnham the operator had refused to accept it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham hoped this second report would at last compel a decision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham established defenses that by prevailing standards seemed elaborate, even excessive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Too many features of the fair remained unfinished, Burnham acknowledged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As he was crossing the street, a handsome man in a black bowler and cape with black gun-muzzle eyes approached him and asked if he was Mr. Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Soon the struggle for control distilled to a personal conflict between Burnham and Davis, its primary battlefield a disagreement over who should control the artistic design of exhibits and interiors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sullivan had come to see Chicago architecture as dominated by only two firms: Burnham & Root and Adler & Sullivan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In going over the works with Burnham I find him constantly repeating to his Secretary: ‘Tell Ulrich to’—do this & that. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and an army of workers and guards converged on the building and together spent the night fighting the leaks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even Depew, however, did not foresee the true magnitude of the forces that were converging on Burnham and Root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The absence of an Eiffel challenger continued to frustrate Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Quietly officials made it clear that Burnham and Root would be the lead designers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At heart what Olmsted feared was that Burnham had transferred his loyalty to Ulrich. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Some distinctive feature is needed,” Burnham continued, “something to take the relative position in the World’s Columbian Exposition that was filled by the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On every face Burnham saw a “quiet intentness.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A few weeks earlier Thomas Edison, known widely as “the Wizard of Menlo Park,” had paid a visit to Burnham’s shanty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the center of the Midway, the procession veered around the woefully incomplete Ferris Wheel, which Burnham eyed with displeasure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It meant that Burnham could use Root’s floating grillage for foundations without having to worry about catastrophic settlement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Millet had been one of Burnham’s closest allies in the long, bittersweet struggle to build the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To build it Burnham had confronted a legion of obstacles, any one of which could have—should have—killed it long before Opening Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That the water came from the county and not the famous village was a subtlety upon which Burnham and McElroy did not dwell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was said to be the business genius of his firm, Root the artist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1867, at twenty-one, Burnham returned to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham knew how to deal with Chicago’s notoriously flimsy soil, but Jackson Park surprised even him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Despite the carpenters’ strike and all the work yet to be done, Burnham felt optimistic, his mood bolstered by the fine weather. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The engineers, Burnham charged, “had contributed little or nothing either in the way of originating novel features or of showing the possibilities of modern engineering practice in America.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Over breakfast at his hotel on Thursday morning, Burnham read with uneasiness about the failure of S. A. Kean & Co., a private bank in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For years after the fair Burnham used the exclamation, “Bully!” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He rushed to Burnham and took his hands in his own. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At this point, Burnham believed, nothing could tarnish the fair’s triumph or his own place in architectural history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In March 1891 Burnham ordered tests to gauge how well the soil would support the grand palaces then on the architects’ drafting tables. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the midst of all this, as the workload increased, Burnham realized he could put off no longer the hiring of a designer to replace his beloved John Root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham nicknamed Millet and his paint crews “the Whitewash Gang.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The fair’s Committee on Grounds and Buildings had asked Burnham, quietly, to evaluate a number of locations in the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham heard only the hiss of gas from the lamps in his office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham High has a school plaid, a school crest with a thistle and a couple of those Scottish knives they stick in their socks, and a Gaelic motto. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Neither McKim nor Burnham truly believed the fair should be set aflame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham fought to boost the rate of construction, especially of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, which had to be completed by Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What troubled Burnham at the moment, as he rode in his Pullman compartment, was the fact that only one of his candidates, Van Brunt of Kansas City, had replied with any enthusiasm. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham’s pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Olmsted recognized that Burnham’s forces could not possibly finish patching and painting by May 1 and that his own work would be far from complete, but he saw clear improvement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With a power of perception that far outpaced his era, Burnham recognized that the tiniest details would shape the way people judged the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If anyone could sway these men and ignite their passion, Burnham knew, Root was the one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He wanted Burnham to know his views from the start. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He told Hunt he had just spent two days with Burnham, including two nights at the shanty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the news reached Burnham’s shanty, there were cheers and champagne and stories through the night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But Burnham himself had been young when John B. Sherman walked into his office and changed his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Jackson Park Burnham faced repeated interruptions stemming from his de facto role as ambassador to the outside world, charged with cultivating goodwill and future attendance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was sad and lonesome and wanted to go home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had a box, as did Davis and Higinbotham and of course the Palmers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Aware of the architects’ increasing emphasis on size, Olmsted shortly before the meeting had written to Burnham suggesting ways to enliven the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I think he, Adler, had hoped to be in the position I was in,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Late in March 1892 Burnham invited his sons to join him at the shanty for one of their periodic overnight stays. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Peabody did commit to the fair, but Hunt and the others did not: “they said,” as Burnham later revealed, “they would think it over.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham ordered his key contractors—including Agnew & Co., erecting the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building—to stop work immediately. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham saw to his delight that Olmsted had given the directors somewhat more than they perhaps had wished to receive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In his official report to Burnham Colonel Rice, commander of the Guard, wrote, “With the tens of thousands of employees and the millions of visitors, it must be admitted that our success was phenomenal.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sherman’s doubts about Burnham’s character did not color his respect for his skill as an architect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham had advertised the first contract on May 14, this for the Mines Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For Burnham, too, the meeting in the Rookery had produced a heightened awareness of how little time remained. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham loved Chicago for the opportunity it afforded, but he grew wary of the city itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He respected Burnham for his candor, his directness, and the air of leadership he exuded, and no doubt he told the architects as much. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Thanks mainly to Daniel Burnham the city had proved it could accomplish something marvelous against obstacles that by any measure should have humbled the builders. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The eastern and Chicago architects met again on Monday morning, January 12, in Burnham & Root’s library on the top floor of the Rookery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even Burnham could not say for sure who had been first to propose the idea. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The only color in the vicinity was the frost rouge on the men’s cheeks and the blue of Burnham’s and Olmsted’s eyes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham met the eastern architects Monday evening, December 22, at the Players Club, for dinner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “There will not be a brick on the grounds,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Millet was never far from Burnham’s mind, nor was the event that had brought the two of them together: the great Chicago world’s fair of 1893. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham told the men that henceforth they would serve as the fair’s Board of Architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The coroner immediately convened an inquest, during which a jury heard testimony from Daniel Burnham; Frank Burnham; officials of Hercules Iron Works; and various firemen. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The thimble was a crucial part of architect Frank Burnham’s design, meant to shield the surrounding wooden walls from the superheated gases exiting the stack. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the peace of his stateroom, Burnham opened his diary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham left New York the next morning on the North Shore Limited. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham understood that Root was the firm’s artistic engine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham’s work did not cease, the pace at his office did not slow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The presence of Burnham, Root, and Harrison beside the Temperance stone was more than a bit ironic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hygeia’s McElroy, under mounting pressure from Burnham, turned to desperate measures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On Sunday Burnham attended a memorial service for Root at Root’s Astor Place house and his burial in Graceland Cemetery, a charming haven for the well-heeled dead a few miles north of the Loop. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z From time to time he came to Burnham for money, although whether he sought outright loans or sold Burnham artwork from his personal collection is unclear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He called Burnham a “colossal merchandiser” fixated on building the biggest, tallest, costliest structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham replaced him with Edward Shankland, an engineer from his own firm who possessed a national reputation as a designer of bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It took a while, but Burnham got the point. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To Burnham it now seemed inevitable that something would occupy the island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This complaint is universal, and stronger than you in Chicago are aware of, I am sure,” he told Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root tended to their fast-growing practice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That same year Sullivan inscribed a set of drawings, “To Daniel H. Burnham, with the best wishes of his friend Louis H. Sullivan.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The others had expressed only a tepid willingness to meet once Burnham arrived in New York. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On November 24, 1891, Burnham wrote to James Dredge to report that once again he was under fire over the issue of structural integrity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You are a very young man, a very young man indeed, to be in charge of the work entrusted to you,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was a talented artist and architect in his own right, but his greatest strength lay in his ability to win clients and execute Root’s elegant designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sherman told him he respected Burnham’s sense of honor but rejected his withdrawal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Those privy to the warfare within and between these agencies watched Burnham closely but saw no change in his expression. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was a lackluster student: “the records of the Old Central show his average scholarship to be frequently as low as 55 percent,” a reporter discovered, “and 81 percent seems the highest he ever reached.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Until this point Burnham had shown a level of compassion for his workers that was extraordinary for the time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham later offered them the Transportation Building, which they accepted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And Burnham had gained almost limitless power over the construction and operation of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The constant threat of strike and the onset of deep cold shaded the new year for Burnham, but what most concerned him was the fast-shrinking treasury of the Exposition Company. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t see it that way,” Burnham told him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root had been partners and friends for eighteen years. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham imagined terrified men, women, and children trying to slide down the glass flanks of the roof and breaking through, then falling two hundred feet to the exhibit floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To Burnham and the others the new Chicago, as symbolized by the White City rising in Jackson Park, required new leadership—certainly not Harrison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now Burnham faced the prospect of having to go alone to meet these legendary architects—one of them, Hunt, a man also of legendary irascibility. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham could send telegrams, but they forced a cold and clumsy brevity and afforded little privacy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was with Burnham that Olmsted felt the greatest kinship. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But Sullivan laced his 1924 autobiography with hyperbolic attacks on Burnham and the fair’s impact on the masses who came through its gates. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For Burnham, with his failed attempts at getting into Harvard and Yale and his lack of formal architectural training, sitting down to dinner with these men was like being a stranger at someone else’s Thanksgiving. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Burnham and Root were together, one woman said, “I used always to think of some big strong tree with lightning playing around it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Oddly enough, its architect was named Frank P. Burnham, no relation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham admitted later that he had hired Pretyman for the job “largely on account of his great friendship for John Root.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sullivan had already modified his own building, at Burnham’s suggestion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Daniel Burnham was obsessed by the feudal idea of power. Louis Sullivan was equally obsessed by the beneficent idea of Democratic power.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He went on to identify for Ulrich the things that most worried him about the fair, among them the color scheme chosen by Burnham and the architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On January 6 Burnham commanded his department chiefs to take immediate, in some cases draconian, measures to cut costs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root would see to the construction of the buildings and manage the niggling details that typically haunted an architect’s life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With the onset of winter Burnham ordered all hydrants packed in horse manure to prevent freezing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Millet were among the few builders of the fair still alive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For the first time in his career Burnham found himself facing public attack. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the early morning, when Burnham conducted his inspections, the buildings were a pale blue and seemed to float on a ghostly cushion of ground mist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Shortly before noon Burnham left the room to take a telephone call from Dora Root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hayden came to Chicago to produce final drawings, then returned home, leaving their execution to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If an engineer capable of besting Eiffel did not step forward soon, Burnham knew, there simply would not be enough time left to build anything worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once back in Chicago, Ellsworth secured formal authority to hire Olmsted and arranged to have him report directly to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham would have to build a railroad within the fairgrounds to transport steel, stone, and lumber to each construction site. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a rich fee, considering that all Burnham wanted them to do was provide working drawings and make a few visits to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham and Macdonald are from different generations and have clashing styles, one theatrical and flamboyantly satirical, the other deadpan and folksy. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Bo Burnham, its writer and director, became an online celebrity back in 2006, when he started uploading comedy songs, performed in his bedroom. Video killed the Hollywood star: will vloggers take over the film world? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Kirchheimer associates this idea with Daniel Burnham, the Chicago planner and architect who is in some ways the villain of “Tall.” Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Certain comics with unorthodox artistic careers like Bo Burnham expanded the range of what stand-up can do. How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny) 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Krein’s essay on James Burnham’s critique of the “managerial elite” takes whacks at both parties. Talking Trumpism: A New Political Journal Enters the Fray 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The chasm between the lonely, self-conscious girl and the censored, confident image she was putting into the world fascinated Burnham. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And a comic working by himself, Bo Burnham, made “Inside,” the most acclaimed special last year and one of the finest works of art about that period. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Bo Burnham missed out on the top prize at Edinburgh, the Foster's comedy award – but he picked up two other prizes. And the award for most awards goes to ... the Edinburgh festival 2010-09-07T13:42:00Z He remembers one piece by the now-renowned artist Paul McCarthy at the offices of High Performance, a performance art magazine founded by Linda Frye Burnham. Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Finally, four episodes in, we see an instance of why Burnham was a successful Starfleet officer before her mutiny. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 4: Remain Klingon 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham said Lee “is completely involved” with the release of “Go Set a Watchman.” 55 years after ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Scout returns in new-old novel 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Burnham never conveys a sense that Kayla experiences her creation of an online persona as especially liberating; the movie’s perspective on social media is merely a recommendation that kids spend more real-life time together. Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” Reviewed: A Teen Coming-of-Age Story Plagued by Niceness 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Burnham, with dimpled chin and soap-operatic good looks, does creditably by the Sinatra standard “Witchcraft” and the swinging “I’ve Got Your Number” from “Little Me.” | 'The Best Is Yet to Come': Brassy and Bawdy, With Fingers Snapping 2011-05-26T22:00:14Z Burnham wanted to capture the uneasy mood of the early pandemic as viscerally as possible. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Burnham includes many cut songs and satirical sketches as well as alternative versions of familiar bits. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Burnham was born in Henderson, New York, but raised in Chicago—the city that would be most influenced by his work and studies. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Compare that with the ethos today summed up by Bo Burnham in his special “Inside,” which features his song “Welcome to the Internet.” Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Hugo Burnham’s drums and Dave Allen’s bass spasm in tandem like a muscle cramp, confident and nervous in equal measure. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z A couple of years back, teenage American musical comic Bo Burnham came to the Edinburgh fringe and blew everyone away. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-01T00:06:03Z In the stories of Chambers, Burnham, and even Ronald Reagan, who also began his career on the left, the electricity of their right turn is palpable. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z When Rock confessed his mistakes, Burnham moved into a rare close-up. Chris Rock Re-edits a Special, and the Result Is Fascinating 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Chris Burnham, the illustrator of the series, posted on Twitter that the delay was "due some grim imagery that would seem wholly inappropriate given the Aurora killings." Batman comic book postponed after Colorado movie shooting 2012-07-24T22:48:02Z Among the few who've read the manuscript is Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham. Anticipation is high for Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman.' Will it live up to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Burnham has always been hyper-sensitive to artifice and self-projection , and this story of an American teen who turns his own life into a reality show may be the perfect vehicle for his abundant talents. Tracy Morgan called 'sexist' at Melbourne comedy festival 2013-04-16T12:09:02Z The nearby Burnham Harbor is normally about half full at that time of year, he said. Police: Tear gas unlikely on G-8 protestors 2012-02-16T12:18:00Z Content is a distraction, which is the role Burnham initially proclaims he wants his special to fulfill. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Chicago Marathon coverage The Chicago Police Marine Unit searching Burnham Harbor Friday night discovered the body of a 52-year-old man reported missing a few hours earlier. Police divers find body of boat owner 2011-10-08T14:29:00Z The R-rating gives the impression “Eighth Grade” is about those “crazy kids today,” but that’s not even on the periphery of Burnham’s film. “Eighth Grade”: Why 13-year-olds aren’t allowed to see a movie about themselves 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The personal narratives of Chambers, Burnham, and Reagan opened out onto a larger landscape of politics and culture; the narratives of Podhoretz, Horowitz, and Hitchens are small stories of the self. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z As Burnham speaks, a small train loops around the hinterlands of the food court. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Bo Burnham is shortlisted for the Edinburgh best comedy show award. Burnham on award shortlist 2010-08-25T13:45:00Z "Inside" is directed, written and starring Burnham, who also made the acclaimed "Eighth Grade" and co-starred in the Oscar-nominated "Promising Young Woman." Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The archways of its stone tiers fill with soldiers bearing bits of Burnham Wood, in fulfillment of a prophecy of Macbeth’s doom. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z His new show leans heavily on a D.J., and like Bo Burnham, he expands the stand-up palette with sound effects and musical jokes. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham said that Knox, who studied creative writing, would work with a collaborator. Amanda Knox has book deal with HarperCollins 2012-02-16T18:48:18Z Star Trek: Discovery is about Michael Burnham, a human orphan taken in by Vulcans who grows up to be a Starfleet Officer. How 'Discovery' Fits Into the 'Star Trek' Timeline 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Twentieth-century conservatism is unthinkable without Chambers or Burnham or Irving Kristol, who, despite leaving the left, remained loyal to its imagination. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Its main character, Michael Burnham, is Spock's adopted sibling. How Ethan Peck's Spock became the mirthful glue binding us to "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In Chicago, there is this ancient Roman column, just sitting along a bike path in Burnham Park. Q&A: Richard Linklater on America’s Ignored Monuments 2012-08-24T20:33:56Z And yet, this could all be a pose – Burnham is too sleek to be caught out actually meaning anything, and his show is presented as a series of postures. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z Showtime is airing “How to Build a Girl” alongside Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” another sweet and sour coming-of-age comedy about a teenage misfit, which starts at 7:25 p.m. What’s on TV This Week: Documentaries on David Driskell and Abraham Lincoln 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Burnham was clearly drawn to this aspect of the set and focused on it. Chris Rock Re-edits a Special, and the Result Is Fascinating 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s been a decade since Bo Burnham, then 16, uploaded a video of himself to a fairly new site called YouTube. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Burnham lingers on his behind-the-scenes technical tinkering — handling lights, editing, practicing lines. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z In opening his act up with an elaborate, hyperactive sound and light design, Mr. Burnham dramatizes this particular neurosis yet clings to his manic satirical style. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z But it does so with the awareness that despite knowing, as Burnham says, that "our numbers are few, our spirit is undiminished." "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3 boldly goes where canon never dared to imagine life after disaster 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Burnham’s plan led to the 1911 textbook that “No Small Plans” emulates: “Wacker’s Manual,” which Chicago Public School eighth graders read for nearly thirty years. Weaving architecture, history and social justice together, Chicago is imagined anew in “No Small Plans” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Burnham devised a veritable miniature city of neoclassical and Beaux Arts buildings, separated by a complex system of paths, roadways, canals, and lagoons interspersed with landscapes designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z It is understood that the idea is not supported by the shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, who backs a tax on inheritances. NHS tax is floated by Liberal Democrats to fill £30bn hole 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z "Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown," Burnham sings, and whether he wants us to or not, we feel his meaning maybe a little too closely and painfully. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He enjoys the music of the potty-mouthed songwriter Bo Burnham, whose comic song “My Whole Family Thinks I’m Gay” is kind of our anthem. Cultural Studies: Helping a Gay Child to Come Out 2012-10-05T20:07:11Z “Mr. Langella is a razor sharp writer with a brilliantly perceptive eye and a remarkable gift for the telling detail,” Mr. Burnham said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Langella to Drop Names in Memoir 2011-07-18T16:45:51Z Mr. Burnham finds that absurd, arguing that those comics are “desperately trying to act like they haven’t lost that thing they love they had when they were younger — the ‘I’m still struggling.’ Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z I’m sure there were other callbacks, but the most important one: Burnham refers to Spock! ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Russell Kane, who pipped Burnham to the main award that year, will premiere a show entitled Smallness. David Baddiel poised for solo return at Edinburgh fringe 2013-05-10T13:32:13Z In fact a century ago, Daniel Burnham envisioned such an “outer encircling highway” to bypass Chicago in his Plan of Chicago. Hundreds review proposed Illiana route 2012-02-24T20:02:00Z Here, for the first time, we see supporting characters do something other than mope or snap at Burnham. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 5: Saru’s Moment 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Burnham and Macdonald created a more direct relationship with the viewer, one with more intimacy than can be generated by a close-up. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z It's a lawless, Darwinian free-for-all, more or less – and Burnham and all of her previously state-of-the-art technology are viewed as obsolete. "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3 boldly goes where canon never dared to imagine life after disaster 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Burnham offers an eclectic hour of satirical songs, observations and one-liners, his laconic delivery belying a frighteningly sharp mind and a world-weary attitude that seems far beyond his years. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Burnham and Carmichael are such slickly skillful and assured artists that it can be hard to believe them when they get messy. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Burnham is also the main character in the game, a character who is seen moving mechanically around a room. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Jonathan Burnham, the publisher of HarperCollins, called the book an “unbelievably honest narrative of a woman caught in a dangerous cycle of addiction and illness who overcame her demons in an utterly triumphant way.” ArtsBeat: Deborah Voigt to Offer 'True Confessions' in a Memoir 2011-06-01T13:53:08Z Gift shop find: Leather journal in Cherokee red, his signature color, with a Burnham Block logo designed by a docent. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “Green Book” won the Golden Globe, “The Favourite” scored with Bafta, and the Writers Guild gave their top prize in this category to Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” a film the Oscars didn’t even nominate. Oscars 2019 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z He removes the extreme close-up, which, along with its role in drawing attention to the material, is something of a signature Burnham shot. Chris Rock Re-edits a Special, and the Result Is Fascinating 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, called for more vaccine doses in poorer areas of the country, where life expectancy is lower, in the next phase of distribution. Study shows Oxford Covid vaccine has less protection against South African variant 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z “The truth is my biggest problem’s you,” Burnham croons, kneeling at the edge of the stage, bathed in the ghostly glow of a single floodlight. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Working against him: This year’s race may be too stacked with heavyweight names for Burnham to slip through. Who Will Be Nominated for Best Director? 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z And its exquisite aesthetic features stunning and unexpected shots staged by the director, Bo Burnham, that emphasize the theme of mystery and secrets. Best Comedy of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The main drama arises from Louis Sullivan’s efforts, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to develop a new architectural aesthetic, and from his resulting conflict with the architect Daniel Burnham. A Jewish-Refugee Filmmaker’s Urban American Vision 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Heralded as one of the founding fathers of modern urban design, Burnham left an indelible mark on 20th-century American architecture. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z When they’re asked why there isn’t more diversity, they all freeze and then one Burnham pipes up to flamboyantly offer gratitude for the question. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z I think the system is a Baseray baseboard system possibly manufactured by Burnham. How to restore a 1956 walnut dining set’s luster The comic is the latest in Grant Morrison's series, illustrated by Chris Burnham, in which the Batman brand is franchised globally "in preparation for a major international threat". Batman comic delayed after Aurora shootings 2012-07-26T12:09:15Z None could touch Bo Burnham, whose Catholic Rap made my brain feel like scratched vinyl. Our Fringe favourites 2010-08-24T21:15:00Z Burnham knows that term implies something ephemeral and disposable, but he embraces the pejorative nature of it all. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The last intervention made was in the Wirral, where a council decision to close 11 libraries was eventually revoked in 2009 after an inquiry ordered by Labour culture secretary Andy Burnham. Library campaigners mount legal challenges to closures 2011-03-01T17:01:21Z But in an interview with the The Associated Press, HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham said he was "completely confident" Lee was fully involved in the decision to release the book. Mixed reactions to Harper Lee book 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham claimed the vote on the bill would "without doubt be the defining moment of what remains of this parliament". David Cameron warned NHS in danger of collapse within five years 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z A rage against phoneyness and corruption is evident here, however much Burnham strives to cloak it in irony. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z But the artist who captures the low-rent spirit of early Bo Burnham videos best is Matt Buechele, who has a gift for spotting and lampooning musical clichés in only a few seconds at his keyboard. Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The main treaty — the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict — is weakly applied, with little financial backing, said Bonnie Burnham, president of the World Monuments Fund. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Burnham refused to cut his film for a wider audience: “I just wanted to portray the way kids’ lives are,” he told Variety in July. With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Have I got a terrific movie for you — and for anyone who didn’t grow up in the age of social media and 24/7 connectedness: “Eighth Grade” by Bo Burnham. My Stepmother? But She’s 19! 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He will succeed Bonnie Burnham, who is retiring on Nov. 2 after 30 years. High Line Founder to Lead World Monuments Fund 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Possibly the most awkward, anxiety-inducing time in a teenager’s life is examined with a delightful blend of humor and sensitivity in this debut feature by Bo Burnham. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘The Passage’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Dispelling rumors about her lack of well-being, Burnham said, "She's excited about the release." Anticipation is high for Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman.' Will it live up to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn’t want me beaten up,” said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas. Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z As a teenager in Hamilton, Mass., despite being twitchy and shy, Burnham was enthralled by the abstract and dramatic. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “It didn't feel like our responsibility to portray a reality that was appropriate for kids, but rather portray the reality that the kids are actually living in,” Burnham said. Bo Burnham refused to edit R-rated “Eighth Grade” into PG-13 and advises teenagers to “snea... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z But Berlant and Burnham seem up to something more destabilizing, the suggestion that authenticity is just one more act, that truth is, at best, contingent and transitory. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z On top of that, Saru gives Lorca his blessing to send Burnham on an away mission, despite the fact that just few moments earlier, he told Burnham to her face that she’s dangerous. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z People who know his story know Burnham is talking about himself, to himself. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z And why does Captain Lorca insist on Burnham being part of the crew? ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Among the darlings that Burnham killed was a scathing, spot on parody of a Joe Rogan podcast, with Burnham on split screen playing two different guys. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z And the biggest risk Burnham takes in the show is letting his emotional side loose, but not before cracking a ton of jokes. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Bo Burnham, who was also snubbed at the Oscars but had joy at both the writers and directors guild of America awards, picked up the prize for best first screenplay for coming-of-age drama Eighth Grade. Richard E Grant and Glenn Close get late Oscars boost with Spirit Awards wins 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z She knows — or just hopes — that someone, somewhere, is paying attention, a much-tested optimism that Mr. Burnham celebrates beautifully. Review: All the Feels, Hurts and Laughs of ‘Eighth Grade’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z We finally meet the show’s main vessel, the Discovery, after a transport ship moving prisoners, including Burnham, is diverted. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The new special begins with a home movie of Mr. Burnham as a toddler singing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” by a pool. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z This is Bo Burnham, now 19, who became an internet phenomenon four years ago when a song he put on YouTube received a million hits overnight. Bo Burnham: the teenage YouTube sensation lighting up Edinburgh 2010-08-13T20:11:00Z In spite of that built-in tension, Burnham fails to invest the character of Kayla with any substance, curiosity, interests, particulars, or—above all—impulses that would render her vital, complex, deep. Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” Reviewed: A Teen Coming-of-Age Story Plagued by Niceness 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Sullivan appears as a prophet without much honor in his own country, denied the celebrity and the lucrative commissions enjoyed by the Europe-besotted Burnham. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z In his special, Mr. Burnham adopts a prickly persona, establishing a tense relationship with his audience members, alternating between making them laugh and baiting, even insulting them. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Burnham and Berlant started watching solo shows and working with those tropes. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Here, Burnham comes across as a scowling adolescent – albeit one in remarkable control of his surliness, which is wielded as the sharpest weapon in Burnham's comic arsenal. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z In his sobering song “That Funny Feeling,” which has more than 6.7 million views on YouTube alone, Burnham sums it up in one lyric: “The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door.” Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Burnham called the MPAA’s R rating a “bummer” on “Salon Talks,” Salon’s daily video interview show. Bo Burnham refused to edit R-rated “Eighth Grade” into PG-13 and advises teenagers to “snea... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Citing the work of the author Douglas Rushkoff, Mr. Burnham said that watching the proliferation of comedy online had made him appreciate the virtue of old-fashioned gatekeepers. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z And her confidence had faded after she shot a special in 2019, filmed in black and white by Burnham and produced by Jerrod Carmichael, that was shelved. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Burnham gave up a place at university to try comedy. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z This comes after Burnham introduces his approach to the special by admitting his sense of helplessness, his fear that comedy won't help and that maybe giving away his money isn't enough. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z In that spirit, the final Burnham interlude offers a direct invitation to readers to plan their own city. Weaving architecture, history and social justice together, Chicago is imagined anew in “No Small Plans” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The multiple personalities – that's as close as we, and perhaps he, can get to the real Bo Burnham, at least for now. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z “We talked to her through her lawyer and friend Tonja Carter,” said Jonathan Burnham, the senior vice president and publisher of Harper, adding that getting direct permission from Ms. Lee “wasn’t necessary.” Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z This was written to amuse his brother, but it went viral, and Burnham added to it, with ditties about the KKK and the Easter bunny on crack. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z As a director of specials, Burnham specializes in claustrophobic close-ups, which he employs here too, but he begins at a distance. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Located across the street from Lego’s new flagship store, the Flatiron, which was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and completed in 1902, is a fitting choice. Build Your Own New York Landmark—out of Legos 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z When the star drops the microphone, Mr. Burnham fades to black before we hear the familiar sound of it hitting the floor. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z As Burnham, personifying the internet in his song “Welcome to the Internet,” with more than 62 million YouTube views, asks: “Could I interest you in everything all of the time?” Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z But the result looks like a fudge, and Burnham's consolation prize looks sheepish. Why did Edinburgh's comedy award settle for second best? 2010-08-29T11:57:00Z The last one was seen at Burnham Harbor in Chicago in January 1992. Bird enthusiasts flock to Quincy to see rare ivory gull 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Burnham said he rejects the expectation of an “IV drip of entertainment.” Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “When I walk around the office, nobody is on the phone,” said Jonathan Burnham, senior vice president and publisher at HarperCollins. Cultural Studies: Don?t Call Me, I Won?t Call You 2011-03-18T20:49:18Z Teen movie Eighth Grade, written and directed by Bo Burnham, won best original screenplay, while black comedy Can You Ever Forgive Me? won best adapted screenplay. Screenplay glory for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Eighth Grade 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z In a statement, Jonathan Burnham, the publisher of Harper, called Mr. Powell “a truly inspirational figure.” ArtsBeat Blog: Colin Powell Book Is Coming in May 2011-09-25T19:00:18Z Just as digital comedy grew, so did its critics, including Bo Burnham, whose third special offered a biting and resonant commentary on fame in the social media era. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s an uncanny, dystopian view of Burnham as an instrument in the soulless game of social media. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Extra attraction: Travel about 10 miles south to the Rookery Building, which Burnham and Root designed in 1888. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Sentenced to prison for treason, Burnham instead winds up as an ostracized temp on the USS Discovery. Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The camera cuts to the audience, showing them as Burnham sees them, a black and faceless mass. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z One block on Burnham Street boasts a whole row of them, modest homes that are examples of the architect’s stab at affordable housing. 36 Hours in Milwaukee 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “They interpret media completely different than millennials, Gen X or boomers, and as Bo Burnham would say, they see the world almost cynically or ironically.” Gen Z voter turnout will show just how influential influencers really are 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z David A. Burnham, a preparator in vertebrate paleontology at a University of Kansas museum, who is also identified as having studied Shen, explained in the report how he calculated the “bone density” figure. Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for ‘Further Study’ 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z In his show, Mr. Burnham skewers Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” celebrity lip-sync segments, which he calls the “end of culture.” Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Even though the Pahvans essentially brainwashed him, Saru’s discomfort with conflict — and by extension, with Burnham — was always there, buried by his professionalism. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 8: A Little Harmony 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z He takes it, and Burnham cries robotically as a tinny version of the song about being stuck in the room plays. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z In one of the special's most cited music video segments, Burnham poses as an influencer, clutching a mug with "Beyoncé is My Spirit Animal" emblazoned across it in curly cursive. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Burnham was quick to credit her for the success of “Eighth Grade”: Upon picking up his trophy, he said, “This is just another award for Elsie Fisher, truly.” ‘The Rider’ and ‘First Reformed’ Top the Gotham Awards 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Is it true the original Daniel Burnham design for the Washington D.C. In Transit Blog: Ask a Railroad Station Expert 2011-12-28T15:43:27Z The fund was compelled to withdraw from the project about 18 months ago, Ms. Burnham said, because of the growing instability in Syria. Syrian Conflict Imperils Historical Treasures 2012-08-15T22:13:47Z A highly personal kind of existential irony resulted in its creation, as Burnham describes in the lyrics for "All Eyes on Me," which could be the special's unofficial theme. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Now, we’re on a different ship with a different crew and Michael Burnham is in a powerless position. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Some say Burnham authored his famous Chicago plan in the building's penthouse. End of the line for Santa Fe sign? 2012-04-30T20:29:00Z Or is the real Burnham the pernickety statistician who insists "the average person has one fallopian tube"? Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z Burnham said Trump’s rationale for Acosta’s ban was his “rudeness” at last week’s news conference, in effect arguing that Acosta’s conduct, not his right to free speech, was the relevant issue. Judge hands CNN a victory in its bid to restore Jim Acosta’s White House press pass 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z And Burnham, who by the judges' admission "electrified" the festival from day one, was given the panel prize, which awards acts who distil that most conveniently nebulous of qualities, the spirit of the fringe. Why did Edinburgh's comedy award settle for second best? 2010-08-29T11:57:00Z Burnham is gifted at mocking the performative liberal sanctimony of the moment as well as corporate attempts to exploit it, such as his very realistic YouTube ads that pop up below. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z As such, the personal intent of Burnham's "Inside" has been co-opted to reflect some version of the universal. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Burnham’s more detached style, most conspicuous in the filmed segments, cools her down, further levering open the gap between performer and character. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z On Twitter, Burnham wrote that the issue would be delayed for "some grim imagery that would seem wholly inappropriate given the Aurora killings." DC Comics delays Batman comic after Colo. shooting 2012-07-24T19:44:08Z From this debate, I'd say Burnham, though there's little to choose. Victoria Derbyshire; Everyone Quite Likes Justin; Chris Tarrant; Liza Tarbuck 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z The first four episodes of “Discovery,” though, were almost entirely focused on Burnham. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 5: Saru’s Moment 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z No one has mastered the art of a blistering heckler comeback quite like Bo Burnham. “I really want you to kill yourself”: Comedian Bo Burnham goes nuclear on heckler 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Bypassing the traditional route to stand-up success, Mr. Burnham grew into a boldly theatrical and formally clever comedian whose trailblazing career was a forceful defense of the internet as a comedy incubator. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The creators of Bo Burnham’s lauded new indie coming-of-age film, “Eighth Grade,” always knew it would receive an R-rating, that would keep out the very audience members it’s made for: teenagers. “Eighth Grade”: Why 13-year-olds aren’t allowed to see a movie about themselves 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Discovery” is a story birthed a decade prior to the events of the original series, and Burnham is a product of a universe that exists under a totalitarian threat. Where "Star Trek: Discovery" boldly goes: Season 2 explores feminist frontiers 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Allen was the first to depart, in 1981, and Burnham left two years later. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z A few days after the signs went up in local parks in Taunton and Burnham, Jones took a stroll by each one and saw people sitting there actually talking to each other. This town’s solution to loneliness? The ‘chat bench.’ 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t until Mr. Burnham finished writing his third special, “Make Happy,” which debuted on Netflix on Friday, that he decided to stop hinting and add a thesis statement of sorts. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z That's a watershed moment for any youngster – but more so for Burnham, the big story of this year's Fringe, where he has played sell-out gigs night after night. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z Rather than exploit his online celebrity like his peers, Bo Burnham chose to analyse it. Video killed the Hollywood star: will vloggers take over the film world? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Kane's career will deservedly benefit from the award; Burnham is back off to the States and probably wouldn't. Why did Edinburgh's comedy award settle for second best? 2010-08-29T11:57:00Z However, before we see where Burnham lands, we see a man whose only job appears to be waking up and scanning a digital view of the galaxy for any signs of the Federation's return. "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3 boldly goes where canon never dared to imagine life after disaster 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z But under the direction of Bo Burnham and a promise that there’s much to discuss, Carmichael goes deeper this time. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z If you have visited New York City, Chicago, or Washington, D.C., you’ve likely encountered the work of Daniel Burnham, the American architect who was born on this day in 1846. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The art he made for himself happens to explain a generation he’s not even part of, but Burnham is comfortable with contradiction. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In a giddy homage to “Cabaret,” Burnham, in sunglasses, plays the M.C. of the internet, welcoming everyone with a decadent menu of options while disco lights twirl. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “Phone calls used to be everything: serious, light, heavy, funny,” Mr. Burnham said. Cultural Studies: Don?t Call Me, I Won?t Call You 2011-03-18T20:49:18Z Though she addresses Dennis in her narration, the substance of Burnham’s artful tapestry of a novel — to be published in July — concerns Linda’s relationships with other women. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z As those rhymes in Burnham's Catholic Rap imply, he's about more than virtuosity. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z The series is written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Chris Burnham. DC Comics delays Batman comic after Colo. shooting 2012-07-24T19:44:08Z Her director, the comic Bo Burnham, had been emphasizing the same point: clarity, structure, clarity, structure. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z “The World Monuments Watch is a call to action on behalf of endangered cultural-heritage sites across the globe,” said Bonnie Burnham, the fund’s president, in a statement. ArtsBeat Blog: World Monuments Fund Places Manufacturers Hanover Building on At-Risk List 2011-10-05T14:00:59Z He effectively erases the stamp of the director, even replacing Burnham in the credits with his own name, and produces a new special with most of the same shots, whose differences are subtle but significant. Chris Rock Re-edits a Special, and the Result Is Fascinating 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z As it happens, Burnham, who has been relatively quiet for the past year, released over an hour of outtakes from “Inside” the same week that Macdonald’s special premiered. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Burnham attended the show and afterward administered some tough love. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Burnham tapped into the pandemic zeitgeist while mounting a musical comedy that portrayed his own unraveling mind. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham had hoped to attend the London fair, calling it a "significant exchange of information in the publishing calendar for international publishers." Volcano presses "Iron Man 2" 2010-04-19T19:26:00Z "I was being called a shock comic," says Burnham. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z Following Root’s death in 1891, Burnham led their practice under the name D. H. Burnham & Company. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A week later, Ms. Green joined Mr. Burnham at a nightclub in Gloucester where he served as the D.J. for the evening. They Were Hooked From the First Moment 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “Make no little plans,” wrote the visionary architect Daniel Burnham. Perspective | The Newseum opened as the journalism industry tanked. No wonder it’s in deep trouble. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Then there is 28-year-old Bo Burnham, who trained his eye on the generation below his in the recent Eighth Grade, with a social media literacy born of his own experience as a former YouTube star. Why millennial stories are saving Hollywood 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Maybe those shots of Burnham dancing around while singing about feeling like a big ol' bag of s**t captures a real moment for him. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “It was a divisive approach in the end, and created a lot of confusion amongst the public as to the rules that they were being asked us to follow,” Burnham said. Study shows Oxford Covid vaccine has less protection against South African variant 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z While a generation older than the protagonist, Burnham, a comedian who found fame on YouTube, can relate to the anxiety symptomatic of growing up in the digital era. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z It'll be up to Burnham and the Discovery crew to help right the galaxy and restore faith in the Federation itself. "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3 trailer: Rousing apeeches restore faith in the Federation 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z “I realized that the sort of depth of my experience was not unique to me,” Burnham says, knotting his long limbs in a too-small food court chair. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Three years ago, Mr. Burnham, who considers himself a writer who fell into performance, started experiencing panic attacks before shows. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Burnham is told that when she is not working, she is confined to quarters. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The urgency of that question is heightened in the interludes between chapters, featuring Daniel Burnham, who conceived “The Plan for Chicago” in 1909. Weaving architecture, history and social justice together, Chicago is imagined anew in “No Small Plans” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z There’s no reason to like Burnham at this point. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The contrast remains schematic, however, because Burnham doesn’t develop her online character any more amply than her in-person one—Kayla’s videos are as reticent, vague, and impersonal as her conversations. Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” Reviewed: A Teen Coming-of-Age Story Plagued by Niceness 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z As his argument about the corrosiveness of fame gains momentum, Mr. Burnham stands up, his thin but no longer lanky six-and-half-foot frame jittery with energy. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Burnham’s film is an incredible aid to those adults. “Eighth Grade”: Why 13-year-olds aren’t allowed to see a movie about themselves 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Bo Burnham cut an album there early in his career, and Phoebe Robinson got her start by taking a comedy class at Caroline’s. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z For that matter, who knows if Sonequa Martin-Green's Michael Burnham of "Star Trek: Discovery" would have been tasked with her vital duty if Nichols hadn't remained with the Enterprise crew decades ago? Nichelle Nichols completed her "Star Trek" mission so that I'd never know a world without Lt. Uhura 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “It’s the tearing down of the fake edifice of these people being better than us: multimillion-dollar beautiful people performing their own humanity for us in their $10,000 dresses,” Mr. Burnham said. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z So once the screen goes black, it’s no shock that the next image is oddly creepy: a bird’s-eye view of Mr. Burnham in a hooded sweatshirt hunched over a book. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z Another filmmaker, Bo Burnham, faced a similar dilemma this year with his movie “Eighth Grade.” With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z At a panel discussion on Saturday the musicologist Scott Burnham said that the slashing chords at the end of his Fifth Symphony sound “as though we were hearing the creation of the universe taken back.” Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z Burnham, initially a first officer and mutineer soon after, is a warrior and survivor, the embodiment of bravery fueled by deep rooted memory, honor and fear. Where "Star Trek: Discovery" boldly goes: Season 2 explores feminist frontiers 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Burnham wrote “Eighth Grade” to escape the isolation he felt onstage, to grapple with his anxiety and the Internet culture that birthed his career. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Given Burnham’s mutiny, why should we as viewers want to be along for this ride? ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z After graduating from a Catholic school in Danvers, near Boston, where he threw himself into theatre and taught himself to play the piano, Burnham had been planning to study performance at a conservatoire. Bo Burnham: the teenage YouTube sensation lighting up Edinburgh 2010-08-13T20:11:00Z But if "Inside" is indeed the "feeling-not-so-great-but-at-least-we-got-out-of-bed" hit of the summer, that also assumes everyone has been inside losing their minds, staring into the mind-expanding/mind-rotting void Burnham describes in "Welcome to the Internet." Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z It won’t be giving away the ending by pointing out that it doesn’t end well for Burnham. Pet Projects of the New Billionaires 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z What is still not clear — and I doubt it ever will be — is how the existence of Burnham was never mentioned by Spock. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 3: Sometimes Down is Up 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Burnham’s ability to view and capture horrible teen dynamics so clearly and convincingly indicated to me that one could live to tell the tale. The Cringey Teen Spirit of “Eighth Grade” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Burnham said fans would be delighted with the new book. 55 years after ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Scout returns in new-old novel 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Burnham lives this wisdom in the closing moments of the “Star Trek: Discovery” series premiere and speaks from a place of knowing its truth, and learning from it in the first season finale. Where "Star Trek: Discovery" boldly goes: Season 2 explores feminist frontiers 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Burnham conceptualized each segment and shot it all by himself in his L.A. apartment over the course of a year. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z |
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