Word: barre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barr Jr. sat for an Esquire Magazine photograph last summer of New York's "Decisive Dozen"-tastemakers who "make decisions which affect the lives of at least the articulate members of the national community." Now he is not so sure how he feels about the honor...
Paying homage to Tastemaker Barr, Esquire gushed that he "commands what could be called a beautiful speaking voice. He constructs sentences of an almost eighteenth-century complexity without pausing to take breath...
Religious Issue. Most talked about reason for Southern restlessness is Jack Kennedy's Roman Catholicism. "We haven't come as far from '28 as I thought," said a North Carolinian last week. Kennedy is being openly chastised from many a Protestant pulpit. Dr. Ward V. Barr of Gastonia, N.C.'s First Baptist Church says flatly: "I fear Catholicism more than I fear Communism...
...through Holland, then went to Berlin, where Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe were working. To this day, Mies refers to 1930 as "the year of the American invasion," for the enthusiasm of the young visitors was almost overwhelming. Two years later, with the blessings of Director Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, they organized an exhibition of modern architecture that in its way was as important as the Armory Show had been 19 years earlier. Thereafter the phrase "International Style" became the standard term for the austere functionalism that had emerged after World...
...apartment, finds that his control is always best after a summer of swimming. In his youth, Kinkaid was a champion swimmer in Honolulu, where his Presbyterian minister father was assigned, but he gave up an athletic career for music, studied with the late great Flutist Georges Barrère. He understudied Barrère in the New York Symphony when he was only 17, graduated to the first-flute desk at the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was 27. Kinkaid's importance to the orchestra is so great that both Eugene Ormandy and his predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, refused to record...