Word: der
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amherst has lost many of the players who helped whip the Crimson last fall. Their starting line-up includes new men at both insides and both wings, and a sophomore at right half. However, Pieter van der Toorn, a very good lineman, will be at center half, and Drew Mallory, who wrecked the varsity's offense in 1958, will be back at fullback...
...renderings and oversized photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts displays the recent work of thirteen of the major modern architects. The show features the work of architecture's "big three"--the late Frank Lloyd Wright, the vigorous and ceaselessly inventive Le Corbusier and the contemplative, conservative Dutchman, Mies Van Der Rohe...
...Seagram Building represents the consummation of the classicism of Mies Van Der Rohe. Rarely has such refinement, such tastefulness and simplicity been applied to what Frank Lloyd Wright derisively labeled, the "cereal box" style of architecture. Yet "cereal box" or no, most important modern buildings as well as those throughout the ages have used the rectangular solid as their basic form...
...swarming with cops, detectives, reporters, gallery directors and art experts. The reason: six paintings were missing, and two more had been slightly damaged. The thieves had stolen Frans Hals's portraits of Isaak Abrahamsz Massa (conservatively valued by gallery officials at $120,000) and Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne ($80,000), Rembrandt's portraits of a Lady with a Lap Dog ($150,000) and a Lady with a Handkerchief ($250,000), Pierre Renoir's Portrait of Claude ($20,000), Peter Paul Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross ($20,000). It was probably the biggest art robbery...
...airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...