Word: barreness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cynics might view the Museum's work as an esthete's dream-fostered by dilettantes and benefactors of great wealth-with only superficial relation to the broad life of the U. S. But Alfred Barr comes nearer home when he says, "The Museum of Modern Art is a laboratory; in its experiments the public is invited to participate." And the cynical view will not stand up very well in the presence of the Museum's new president...
...great art collectors but has not emulated them. He buys sculpture for his desk (last week he had a woodcarving by William Steig), paintings for his walls, wishes that all men could do the same. As president, he wants to put the imaginative and lucid work of Alfred Barr and Co. into even greater circulation...
...Friday the six-man Crimson team of Ace Cordingley, Bob Graves, Captain Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Watty Dickerman, and Don Elbet competed for the team crown. Scores of the low four men count, and the quartet of Barr, Thompson, Cordingley and Graves turned in a total of 306, good enough for first place...
Amherst was second with 309, and Bowdoin was third with 310. Thompson and Barr led the Hoddermen to the Friday triumph with 73 and 74 respectively. The low 32 men on Friday qualified for Saturday's individual play...
Graves was well down in the qualifying lists, with a 78, but he literally took the stiff Oakley course apart Saturday. Captain Jack Barr was his nearest pursuer, and a distant one at that with a 74-76--150. The nine stroke winning margin which Graves had even surpassed the record of present national amateur champion Willie Turnesa, who reigned over the Eastern Intercollegiate golfers for three years...