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There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

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Roger Scruton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1944
Born: February 27
Died: 2020
Died: January 12
Aesthetician
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Political Scientist
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Roger Vernon Scruton
Professor Sir Roger Vernon Scruton
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