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Target date for the Concert Hall is now July 1960. The new Met is due to be finished in July 1961; the Theater of the Dance by July 1963. Says Center President Rockefeller: "It is proper that Lincoln Center should represent the best of American architecture, for we are building not for today or tomorrow, but for 100 years. We hope Lincoln Center will stand, in the eyes of the world, as a symbol of our national regard for the arts, and our recognition of their importance in the lives of the American people...
After sifting through plans and photographs of buildings from all over the U.S., the American Institute of Architects last week picked this year's winners of "first honor" awards for architectural excellence. The year's best: the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. home office building near Hartford by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Partner Gordon Bunshaft (TIME COLOR PAGES, Sept. 16); the Stuart Co. pharmaceutical plant at Pasadena by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME COVER, March 31); two glass-façaded California school buildings by San Francisco's Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass...
...ecumenical movement toward unity among the Protestant denominations, added Theologian Weigel. "is vital and effective, one of the best efforts the Protestant churches have ever made. The hope of a united church necessarily makes the Protestant look at Catholicism and look at it more sympathetically than he did in the past." The Protestants, he said, are also growing more and more interested in liturgy, increasingly using candles, the cross, vestments, stained glass, "and even statues." Catholic rites are no longer despised as "popish idolatry." and Protestants often visit Catholic churches "to see how the liturgy is to be performed...
Baltimore's Dr. Timanus, now barred from practice and living in retirement, testified that he used the best medical techniques available (mostly in the days before antibiotics). In every case he tried to get the referring doctor to state in writing that the woman's health would be jeopardized by continuation of the pregnancy. Since Dr. Timanus performed almost five times as many abortions as turned up in the Kinsey study, his analysis may have a wider application...
Time for Tranquilizers. Well, then, what can be done to rekindle the desire? "The answer is not simple," said Brower, "because the mediocrity of salesmanship is only part of our pattern of being willing to settle for something less than the best. For this, in America, is the high tide of mediocrity, the great era of the goof-off. The land has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility...