Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today everyone is engaged in seeking culture: book and record-of-the-month clubs flourish; people, according to an amazed Time Magazine, actually buy paintings, and Fine Arts 13 is crowded. While the culture boom has been conspicious in the field of the "fine arts" one need not be a sociologist with a Ph.D. or even a reader of the New Yorker to be aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern...
Undoubtedly a major feature of the current quest for culture is a desire, heavy with overtones of both social snobbery and cultural inferiority, to "understand" what art is all about. Courses telling a person how to look at a piece of art or records explaining what it is that the hearer is hearing continue to attract large audiences and fat profits. "I want to learn to appreciate art," is a common pronouncement of anxious masses fearful whether they are not "complete" persons until they do. It is such a context that gives so great importance to the methods and approach...
...sailing team will enter the 24th Annual Brown University Spring Regatta at Providence today with little chance of being among the top finishers. Crimson skippers Carlos Rodriguez and Art Donovan will race Brown's 12-foot dinghies on the Seekonk River against a strong field of seven other teams...
Since the party split in 1948, the great political art of compromise has held the Democratic Party together. The South warned the party, and the Civil Rights plank of the Democratic platform was considerably watered down. In 1956, to the dissatisfaction of most liberals, Harry Truman himself averted an intra-party fight by dramatically taking the floor and calling for party unity at all costs...
Alfred R. Bader, owner of the art work, first saw it in Vienna last November, but did not decide to buy it until last Monday. Jakob Rosenber, professor of Fine Arts at Fogg, then assured him that it was indeed the original and was in good condition...