Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead the world in genius for invention, efficiency and utility. There is no reason why we cannot eventually do so in the genius for art and literature." With such hearty optimism, a steel baron named Joseph Green Butler Jr. founded an art institute in Youngstown, Ohio 39 years ago. To set the strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 colonnaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University near by, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon developed into the cultural strip...
Last week, full in the buzzing hot Ohio July, the Butler Institute of American Art was crammed with a new show of U.S. paintings and jammed with people to see them. It was no leader yet of world art, but a happy model of the small-city U.S. museum in summer bloom...
...Gregorio Prestopino (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948). It seemed to suit the factory workers, ladies' clubbers and art fanciers of Youngstown (pop. 180,000); so many came on opening night that the rum for the punch bowl ran out. The painting and the other winners also pleased Joseph Green Butler III, the institute's greying, quiet, 57-year-old director...
...every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip the girl, because the embassy is "Cambodia in London." Ambassador Sary got off a protest to the British Foreign Office, objecting to Iv Eng Seng's complaints. Iv Eng Seng applied to Home Minister Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, asking for asylum...
...true growth, say the geneticists, and evolution would soon improve the original breed. DNA would eventually wrap itself in cells and retire to their nuclei to give orders. Cells would later band together into multicelled animals, but they would not escape the commands of the DNA within them. Samuel Butler wrote: "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." Geneticists like to make this remark more general: "All plants, and animals and humans," they say, "are DNA's way of making more...