Word: 88th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), opened to the public last week. Discord and controversy had marked it since the day it was commissioned 16 years ago. Wright had proposed "one great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome...
...most controversial building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, last week opened its spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...
From Maine in September to California in November, it was a Democratic year. In this week's elections Democrats edged Republicans in the races for gubernatorial seats, increased their 88th Congress holding in the House from 233 to something in the order of 268-273, jumped the Democratic Senate margin by at least a dozen seats...
...group of law professors and advocates honored Pound, their president, on his 88th birthday with a program recounting his achievements and influence in the field...
Congressional Leadership. Far from knuckling under to Democratic congressional leaders, President Eisenhower demanded, fought for and won important legislation-notably on foreign aid, education, reciprocal trade and defense reorganization-from the 88th Congress...