Word: barres
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DIED. Stringfellow Barr, 85, distinguished author and educator who rocked the academic world in 1937 when, as the new president of St. John's College, he instituted a radical curriculum requiring the study of 100 classics; of pneumonia; in Alexandria, Va. Barr felt that colleges should scrap textbooks and introduce students to such authors as Plato, Darwin, Dante, Shakespeare and Marx...
...Margaret Barr, kitchen supervisor at the Kennedy Elementary School, said recently the number of lunches served has decreased by 200--or one-third of the total--from the 1980-81 school year to the current semester. Of the 400 lunches still being served, only 25 percent are paid lunches, she added...
...corporate resources. By the time the actual trial began in 1975, some 5,500 pages of testimony had been gathered, and more than a dozen other companies wound up filing spin-off antitrust actions of their own against IBM, producing 66 million more pages of documents. Concedes Thomas Barr, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which managed IBM's defense and trained a whole generation of young antitrust lawyers in the process: "We made a lot of money on this case...
Despite his shy demeanor, Barr's near dictatorial power led museum colleagues to call him "the Pope" and caused him to be described as "a man who could make enemies without moving a single muscle of his face." He used his position to campaign tirelessly against the hostility of laymen who condemned modern art after "ten seconds of casual, prejudiced study." The intellectual possibilities of art interested him as much as the aesthetic qualities. He is said to have once rejected a canvas by saying, "It's too pretty; I don't trust it." His insistence...
...inspired showman, Barr masterminded hundreds of exhibitions that rarely failed to create an uproar. The avant-garde sculpture he imported for a 1936 show so bewildered U.S. Customs officials that they refused to recognize it as art and tried to levy heavy duties. His decision to display such objects as an oval wheel and a fur-lined teacup irked the museum's trustees, and one show devoted entirely to an elaborate shoeshine stand crafted by little-known Primitive Artist Joe Milone nearly got him fired. But he also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design...