Word: ades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
This week, at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the De Beers collection of modern art was put on public display. The eleven canvases shown had nothing obvious to say about diamonds : most pictured women, one a man with a guitar, one a bunch of flowers, one the façade of a cathedral...
...behind the façade of justice erected by the rulers at Vichy less dignified machinations were in progress last week. It was far from certain that the trials would proceed to an orderly conclusion, far from certain that life imprisonment would be the severest penalty meted out to the ex-leaders of France. In 1871, after France's previous defeat, Frenchmen vented their feelings in violence. In that year the strong-man Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between...
This week, with ceremony and speeches, Noguchi's big piece of steel, securely fitted in its niche in the A. P. Building's façade, was unveiled. Short, kewpie-faced Noguchi listened to the speeches, viewed his plaque, looked relieved. When it was all over he started for Hawaii, where Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (Dole pineapple) had offered him a three-month holiday...
...Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...