The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

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Elwyn Brooks White: "The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances."

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About	Adequate	Amusing	Appearance
Appurtenances	Bars	Cars	Changing
Complaint	Conform	Criticism	Dated
Done	Form	Furniture	Glass
Honest	Houses	Human	Look
Make	Modern	Modernize	Nothing
Objets	People	Race	Steel
Streamlined	Tend	Texture	Them
Themselves	These	Trains	While

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The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances. - Elwyn Brooks White