Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THREE years ago Harris Prior, director of The American Federation of Arts, was looking for a major show to mark the A.F.A.'s 50th anniversary celebration in 1959. Reading TIME'S cover story on Eero Saarinen (July 2, 1956), he noticed a box headed "The 20th Century Form Givers," was struck by the possibilities of making it the theme of a comprehensive and definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute...
...Some study of art or music or both. --Admission and Scholarship Office
...there in a Webern score may satiate one's thirst for the piquant and highly flavored, it does not quench the far more important thirst of the soul. Elevated feeling in the human spirit is generally ignored by modern composers, but it is an important response to the musical art. Any thinking person who made a list of the ten greatest compositions would have to include some exalted music--like the Sanctus of Bach's B Minor Mass, or Mozart's Magic Flute...
...write anything about me do say that all these remarks are based on the assumption that there will be any theatre or any anything a couple of years from now." If offered the choice, he said, he would prefer to see the destruction of every work of art in the world rather than a "preventative" war with Russia. "I don't think any of the arts are more important than ... the question of survival...
...Landau, Frank Yeomans, and Sandy Dodge followed the 440 victory with a sweep in the 100, but the heroics were just beginning. After Landau, running the high hurdles only ten minutes after his 10.1 win in the 100, lost a close race to Cadet Gil Roesler, the varsity's Art Cahn, Gus Schumacher, and Andy Bacher faced Army's Bill Hanne...