Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-man jury still knew what it liked, snapped back a telegram to the President describing the Moscow offerings as "the broadest, most representative exhibition of American art of the last 30 years ever sent abroad by our Government." And Manhattan Art Dealer Edith
Halpert, who will be curator of the paintings in the Moscow exhibit, huffed: "Some people think the President's paintings aren't so good either. It's like Truman saying modern art resembles ham and eggs...
...special committee appointed by George V. Allen, director of the U.S. Information Agency: Franklin C. Watk.ins of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Henry Radford Hope, chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University; and Sculptor Theodore Roszak of Sarah Lawrence College...
Leader of the four was blond, slight Jake Breitenbach, 24, a guide at Wyoming's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. Like Jake, the others were young, but experienced beyond their years in their perilous art: Ski Instructors Pete Sinclair, 23, and Barry Corbet, 22; Math Teacher Bill Buckingham, 22, a member of the American Alpine Club...
Concurring Justices hastened to add some obiter dicta. Felix Frankfurter, "as one whose taste in art and literature hardly qualifies him for the avant-garde," doubted that the picture would have offended even "Victorian moral sensibilities." Said Justice John Marshall Harlan, who felt that Lady should not be banned, even though he also felt that the Supreme Court had moved too swiftly in striking down the New York statute: "I cannot regard this film as depicting anything more than a somewhat unusual, and rather pathetic, 'love triangle...