Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massive central balcony and surrounding galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week were aglow with an unprecedented display of masterpieces. On view were Giotto's famed Paduan fresco Betrayal of Christ, Piero della Francesca's looming Resurrection, the Louvre's Mona Lisa, El Greco's towering 16-by12-ft. Burial of Count Orgaz and Georges Seurat's 7-by-10-ft. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To equal the experience, an art lover would have had to visit 26 museums, travel some 15,000. miles...
Joseph Zalewski, assistant professor of Architecture, arranged the display of art, loaned by the Pierre Matisse Gallery of New York City. Many of the works have never before been displayed in New England...
...exhibition of ten paintings and seven gouaches by the eminent architect Le Corbusier is now on display at Robinson Hall of the Graduate School of Design...
...university rule which prohibits "public display of affection" was ordered to be strictly enforced after the neighbors complained. Girls who break the rules will be "campused" for a week...
...freehand paraphrase of British Poet W. H. Auden, Bachelor Hammarskjold often declares: "Private faces should not be caught in public places"-and for some time after he became U.N. Secretary-General he was dismayed by the extent to which his private face was on public display. But he also inherited, as he once wrote, "a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country-or humanity. This service required sacrifice of all personal interests"-including, it soon became clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes...