Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Art & Paintslinging
Berlin in the '20s was perhaps the gayest capital in the world, and Paul Tillich was no stranger to night life. During one of the art students' fancy-dress balls, at which he turned up in a cutaway and turban, he met a handsome girl in long green silk stockings, named Hannah Werner. As Tillich put it recently: "Things went on from there...
Gathering Darkness. Things went on to marriage and a three-month walking trip through Italy, where Art Student Hannah introduced her fascinated husband to the wonders of medieval and Renaissance painting and architecture. "For years afterward," says Tillich, "I dreamed of the 24 hours we spent in Ravenna." Tillich built up an increasingly fruitful career of writing and lecturing; between 1924 and 1933, he taught theology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt. But darkness was closing in: "Gradually life changed around us, became rigid and timid...
Despite the organizers' expectation that the exhibition would "allay...doubts...as to whether there would be any noticeable quantity of avant-garde art," Rowland felt that "They weren't taking much of a chance," and adhered to established names at the expense of younger contemporary artists...
...sexes appeared around the College. Members of the Cooperative house at 3 Sacramento St. fashioned a 12-foot statue of a nude kneeling woman which drew a neighbor's complaint. University police approved the statue, and a member of the Cambridge squad termed it "a work of art," adding "it would be a shame to tear it down." The storm also stopped construction work on Quincy House and the new Leverett Towers, and shut down the Radcliffe administration office. Though the University held classes as usual, many 'Cliffies, fearing the long walk, stayed in bed. The Coop closed...