Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it was not auspicious to name a cultural complex after a man who was shot in a theatre. Lincoln Center, at any rate, has been plagued with frequent artistic, acoustical, and architectural disasters ever since Philharmonic Hall opened to an audience which couldn't hear the lower part of...
John Updike, who writes both poetry and novels, is at his best in the short story, where his mastery of the artistic ecology to which he was born is unstrained by the demands of the long migratory flights of the novel. A rare and precious bird is he, protected by...
Elegant & Eccentric. Last week, on the occasion of Cleveland's 50th anniversary, Lee looked like a Caesar back from the pillage of some artistic Carthage. Presiding at a candlelit banquet for 275 guests and trustees, he displayed a trophy case filled with 159 new acquisitions, valued at some $5...
Fear of Idolatry. Early Christians, following the second commandment's injunction against graven images, at first frowned on artistic expression. Eventually, in catacombs and cemeteries, pictorial art did appear in frescoes and sarcophagi reliefs, but statuary is so rare that scholars have concluded that it was once forbidden. The...
The truth is that for all their public plumping in behalf of U.S. representation in film competitions, U.A. and the other M.P.A.A. members are privately wary of festival juries and reviewers. The festivals are concerned with artistic values, the studios with commercial ones. Even if a Hollywood entry should be...