Word: 150th
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...Fine Arts, the nation's oldest art institution, is that until some 30 years ago almost every eminent figure in American art had been either an academy teacher or student. Last week in its brick and limestone quarters on Philadelphia's Broad Street, the academy celebrated its 150th birthday and backed up its boast by displaying 254 outstanding paintings and sculptures by former students and faculty members...
...romantic excesses ("Berlioz," mocked his fellow composer Franz Liszt, "liked to fancy himself draining Death's chalice to the dregs in a gloomy cavern, surrounded by Italian bandits, and gasping out a final curse upon mankind"). But slowly the critical tide has been turning. This year, following the 150th anniversary of his birth, orchestras across the U.S. have played more Berlioz than ever before. Tanglewood alone performed eight compositions-including the huge choral Te Deum and the Romeo and Juliet symphony-before the Requiem...
...Republic of Haiti, the second Western Hemisphere nation (after the U.S.) to gain freedom, last week jubilantly marked the 150th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence from France. U.S. Negro Contralto Marian Anderson was there to sing for the celebrations, which included a dinner for 700 local and foreign notables at the ruined palace of the fabulous Black Emperor Henri Christophe. There were speeches, dances, pageants. But the eye-popping main event was a sham battle near Cap Haitien, watched intently by President Paul E. Magloire, U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield, the U.N.'s Dr. Ralph J. Bunche...
Although today's game is considered art of Ohio's Sesquicentennial celebration, next year's game will actually be played during the 150th year...
...Marietta River at the small town of Athens, stands Ohio University, a state-supported co-educational college of 5,000 students. For over 149 years Ohio has been offering a good inexpensive education to state boys and girls; because this February the school celebrates its Sesquicentennial or 150th anniversary, the directors have chosen to play Harvard in football. Since the actual observance of Founder's Day falls some time in February of 1954 a certain amount of doubt has arisen as to whether Harvard is playing Ohio in its anniversary year. To remove all doubts the teams will play again...