Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife, Painter Helen Frankenthaler, Motherwell commands top prices ($25,000-$30,000) for his large oils, is a gourmet who owns a Manhattan townhouse, vacations in Venice and Greece. And even in his large-scale (7 ft. by 17 ft.) treatment of such serious subjects as Dublin's Easter Rebellion, the black bars of the Elegies now seem to have opened and the middle field made gay with banner forms. For his next commission, a mural in the Gropius-designed John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building in Boston, the bars will hopefully be burst even farther asunder. Whatever emerges...
Education, as Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly observed, is the door to the Great Society, and the 89th Congress has been eager to unbolt it. The $1.3 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed just before the Easter recess, stirred great interest among constituents back home, and Congressmen have been even more enthusiastic about the Administration's companion bill, which authorizes new subsidies for colleges and universities. By the time it reached the House floor last week, Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee had more than dou bled the Administration's original request for $260 million...
...clothes. Scale, too, remains a concern. A foot will bulk large with deliberate elephantiasis-an indication of foreshortening-or a head will contract into a pin to appear farther away. His Monumental Head stands only 371-in. high, yet it looms as massively as the great stone profiles of Easter Island...
...with $50,000. He stationed red-coated, busy-topped actors on the sidewalk in front of the box office, filled the lobby with Sherlock Holmes memorabilia, and transformed the theater facade into a brick house with cutouts of second-story men and assassins climbing ropes and ladders. Result: during Easter week, Baker Street set a Broadway grossing record...
...Easter Sunday four Negroes, accompanied by Atlanta's Father John Morris, white executive director of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, were barred by ushers from entering the church. Two days later, St. John's vestry agreed that they had the choice of obeying Canon 16 or disassociating from the church, decided to put the matter to a vote by the 1,400-member congregation. By 785 to 75, with 125 absentee ballots still to be counted, the members voted to secede. After the vote, Father Risley submitted his resignation from the ministry to Stuart...