Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan architects, who swarmed to the museum's exhibit, came away impressed but perplexed. What lesson did Gaudi's flowering masonry buildings teach in the age of steel beams and plate glass? Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney thought he knew part of the answer. Said he at the museum's standing-room-only symposium: "Gaudi points the way not through a restatement of Gaudi, but by restatement of his method of approach. He has brought home the value of architecture as sculpture." Critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who with Architect Philip Johnson kicked...
...streamlined functional modern, Tiffany's work is now having its first major Manhattan exhibition since his death, at 84, in 1933. Behind the current Tiffany exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is the same unease that has sent architects back to Gaudi for inspiration. In an age when man's vision seems increasingly hemmed in by a machine-made environment, there is an urge to draw new strength from adventuresome craftsmen who knew how to combine richness with beauty...
Blue Denim (by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble) embeds a troubled teen-age sex drama inside a sociological roundwork. The going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little...
Beetle-browed Leo Burnett, 66, chairman of Chicago's Leo Burnett Co. Inc., is a fast-moving adman who looks and acts much younger than his age. In 22 years he has expanded his agency billings from $1,000,000 to $80 million, captured the No. ID spot in domestic billing among U.S. agencies...
...family tradition. So one day he ups to another scientist and says, sneaky-like: "I plan to assemble a human being." His friend is horrified. "But, Professor Frankenstein, you can't-" Oh yes, he can, and what's more, he plans to make a teen-age monster. After all, I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a howling success at the box office last year. Explains the mad scientist: "Only in youth is there hope...