Word: exhibitionisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here in Cambridge, George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will conduct prayers honoring John Harvard in Appleton Chapel at 8:45 this morning. Widener Library opened an exhibition on the benefactor, including the only book remaining from his library, last Wednesday.
The exhibition, a traveling presentation of some of the collection's finest examples, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Morgan Library in New York. Here is one of those exquisite philanthropies made possible by a successful application of the philosophy that the public be damned.
The manuscripts, not quite art for art's sake or literature for literature's sake, seem to epitomize the joy of collecting. A Gutenberg Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled...
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 23--Some well-spirited Yalie walking out of the Bowl just described this afternoon's exhibition as "Yale's greatest triumph of the century." For his information, the following facts should be noted:
When Franco's forces won the civil war in Spain, ardent Loyalist Pablo Picasso vowed he would never return, never exhibit in his native land while Franco was there. Last week Picasso relented, at least to the point of letting 48 of his works be shown in Barcelona'...