Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...art enthusiasts were appalled to find art works from such areas as Honduras and New Ireland placed in drab cases, along with crude axes and adzes, so that the sculptures, if distinguishable at all through the ethnological confusion, still could not be seen in the round, as they should be. Needless to say, the anthropologists were amazed that the aesthetes called the way the objects were shown an "outrage to man's art...
...Director Brew was well aware that the Museum's magnificent collection of primitive art involved a responsibility to the art world. In connection with Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, he has found what may well prove to be the ideal solution. The Peabody will lend about three hundred examples of primitive art for exhibit in a gallery permanently set aside for it in the Museum of Fine Arts. The primitive works will be shown in a manner befitting any more recent work of art...
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The first edition of this vocal version of Wide Wide World hardly showed signs of budding, but the seed catalogue is impressive: Marian Anderson, Carol Haney, Art Carney...
...Art Cahn came from nowhere in the stretch of the 880 to catch Bill Hanne of Army, who had whipped him easily indoors. With the javelin all but over, Tom Blodgett won the event with his next-to-last throw, and he took first in he pole vault with a 13-ft. effort on his final attempt...
Gordon ran his best race of the season, 48.1, but he lost in the 440 to Jim Stack of Yale. Art Cahn's fine 1:53.4 effort in the 880 was good only for second behind Bulldog Tom Carroll. Steve Snyder of Yale edged out Yeomans, who ran a 9.8 100. Joel Landau lost the first low hurdle race of his career to Jim Carney of Yale, and he was shuut out in the 220. Only Landau's 14.9 in the high hurdles and Benjamin's 9:12.0 in the two-mile were good enough for firsts in the running...