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Why should it be so difficult to find a Frank Lloyd Wright hat?
Wright’s pork pie hat has a very shallow crown. Its brim is either wide (that is, wide for a fedora) or rather narrow (that is, narrow for a cowboy hat). I’ve always thought that Wright’s hat was an expression of his aesthetic, a look equally at home in Arizona’s red-rock canyons or New York City’s canyons of steel and glass.
Wright’s hat didn’t come out of nowhere. Wright biographer Meryle Secrest credits the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States, Elbert Hubbard, with inspiring Wright’s style. In the early 1900s, stiff black suits were the common costume. Hubbard went with loose tweeds and a cape. Longish hair flowed out from a “broad-brimmed, soft-crowned hat that Wright would make his own.” The essential Wright outfit would include the hat, a “perfectly superfluous cane,” which the architect used to exaggerate sweeping gestures, and a cape rather tha
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Criticism is the leader’s unwritten recompense. Leaders are criticized for issues they have control over as well as those about which they can do nothing. They are criticized for the sublime and the ridiculous, the good and the bad, the significant as well as the mundane. It is absolutely impossible to lead without coming under the attack of critics. As noted by Elbert Hubbard, it is only those who do nothing and are nothing that can escape criticism.
Leaders are subjected to criticism because their actions and inactions shape the destiny of those who are within the scope of their influence. So, when things go awry, whether or not as a result of their direct involvement, they are deemed liable and get lampooned.
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