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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Customs law covering original works of art has been unchanged since 1930. uses some definitions that date back to 1916, fails to take account of the revolution that has taken place in half a century of modern art. The travails that this situation causes an institution such as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is enough to make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean...
This year, Commencement, in addition to its usual implications, marks an important milestone for the two-year-old Program for Harvard College. At the Alumni Association meeting on Thursday afternoon, President Pusey will deliver his annual address and announce the totals to date of the mammoth $82.5 drive to procure increased scholarships, Faculty salaries, Houses, and other buildings and endowments for the College...
...Europe's Enlightenment was in full vigor; Denis Diderot's French Encyclopedic had just come out, and Britain was ripe for an up-to-date compendium of all knowledge. The Britannica's founders were Colin Macfarquhar, a small-business man of Edinburgh, and Andrew Bell, an engraver of dog collars, who stood 4½ ft. tall, and had a nose so embarrassingly big that he used to mock his mockers with an even larger one of papier-mache. Smellie, their 28-year-old choice for editor, spieled long Latin poems when drunk, and was celebrated...
...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...
...fringes, such as higher and longer supplemental unemployment benefits. Auto workers would get something more than a 9? package v. the 35?-to-45? package that Reuther originally demanded. Such a settlement would be considerable, considering the slump, but less than Reuther has signed for in the past. To date, his most modest settlement was an 11? boost...