Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The newly organized critics, who call themselves, with Jacobin earnestness, "the Committee for the City," are a non-partisan coalition of activists from Los Angeles' professional, academic and artistic worlds. They have the strong and enthusiastic support of Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler, who allows that "it would...
Native Son. To understand Miró it is perhaps more important to remember that he is a native of Spain than to try placing him in a particular artistic movement. The Farm, finished in 1922 and bought soon afterward by Novelist Ernest Hemingway for $200 in Paris, is one of...
Cricket and Rugby. Europeans founded black African colleges on the premise that natives ought to be first Westernized, then educated. Despite the fact that political leaders fulminate against the West and neocolonialism, the universities' goal remains the same. In Uganda (pop. 6,845,000), where per capita income is...
After nearly 30 years of artistic doubt and indecision, the American Ballet Theater seems to have rediscovered it self. Currently appearing at Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House, Ballet Theater offers a program of carefully reconstructed classics with a sprinkling of modern works.
That, in effect, was the goal set for the company in 1940 by its founder, Architect Richard Pleasant. Since then, however, Ballet Theater has all too frequently strayed off on a series of unrewarding paths. After Pleasant entered the U.S. Army during World War II, the company came under the...