Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torso from ancient Greece, The Walking Man by Rodin, a Calder stabile, or a 23-ft.-long carved crocodile from New Guinea. And he sometimes exhibits things just to keep Houston up to date with the latest fads. Last week, in the big hall designed by Mies van der Rohe that forms a wing of the original Greek revival building, he was showing something called Gorgo in New York-a papier-mache dinosaur walking over a city of toy cars and trains, a papier-mache serpent crushing a rocking horse, plus gears of a clock, a half-full milk carton...
...building which Paul Rudolph-and most other architects-acknowledges as the "most beautiful curtain-wall building" in America was paying a penalty for it. Park Avenue's Seagram Building, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, has been judged by New York City's Tax Commission to be so expensively elegant that it should be taxed on a basis about 50% higher than if it were one of the bleak glass boxes that surround...
...print to Moscow, the Soviets sent back quibble-headed rockets. How dare NBC say that Western influences had helped shape the new Palace of Congresses? It's a fact, said NBC; and indeed, the palace looks as if it might have been designed by someone called Mies van der Red. And the lyrics of the choral singing, griped the Russians, could be translated to mean "Long live the Czars!" NBC shrugged. The Soviets had supplied the choir...
...find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde undertook to write accurate hagiographies. But no volume of the Acta series has been released since 1940, and Bollandist Father Joseph van der Straeten admits that "no one can say when our next will be published. Maybe in a century, maybe...
...pain. When the pressure of their presence becomes annoying, Lucky Hans excises them by setting his thoughts on paper. This pleasant debility is persistent enough to have made him one of Europe's leading composers, and in the German press it has won him a new nickname. "Der Erfolgskomponist," the papers call him, which means that Hans Werner Henze is, at 36, a composer addicted to success...