Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum confronts the strong-legged visitor with almost every sort of art object, from Egyptian soup spoons to a colonial American sugar cutter. But critics have often accused the Met of being overcool to 20th Century U.S. painting. Last week the Met answered its critics...
The change was still almost invisible to an old grad's nostalgic eyes. But it was getting more noticeable all the time. After years of hewing to the traditional Colonial-Georgian-Collegiate Gothic line, U.S. colleges were turning to modern architectural styles. In its current issue the Architectural Record...
Liquor by the Mouthful. Editor Dorson has searched through records of the colonial century for its sharpest incidents, sharpened them still further with careful editing, and made of them a volume that brings the colonial century almost too keenly alive for some 20th Century tastes. The tales of Indian captivity...
¶In Manhattan's special sessions court this week Gambler Erickson meekly entered a plea of guilty on all counts (maximum penalty on each: $500 fine and one year in jail). But a trial might have been worse. Hogan's men had found that a big chunk of...
Santa Barbara School had long since moved down from the hills to a handsome $600,000 Spanish-colonial-style plant on a mesa overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Its alumni, canvassing West Coast parents and public-school principals, had lined up a record number of applicants for the coming year. And...