Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeveloped land, lying along the north bank of the Charles River between the Eliot Bridge and the Watertown Arsenal, was first brought to the public's attention by DeVoto's late father, Bernard A. DeVoto...
...Died. Bernard Ralph Maybeck, 95, pioneer modern architect, "grandfather of the California style," designer of the Palace of Fine Arts for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; in Berkeley, Calif. Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
Perhaps the most interesting case study is that of Mormon culture, an area of small population, but one which has producer an amazing number of good writers. Ezra Pound, Vardis Fisher, Maureen Whipple. Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto (the last two having both attended Harvard, a long, long, ways in all respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture...
...with West Side Story, is exploring the musical theater as a vehicle for something like tragedy. And it may be indicative of some change in the pattern of the American musical that the most hailed show now in New York, My Fair Lady, owes much to the British genius, Bernard Shaw; and that The Three Penny Opera has enjoyed a two-year run even though it is a daring experiment which was written thirty years ago in Germany...
...German Expressionist Painting, by Peter Selz (University of California, $18.50); German Expressionism and Abstract Art, by Charles L. Kuhn (Harvard University, $8.75); The German Expressionists, by Bernard S. Myers (Praeger...