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...Santa Fe...
...Rock); he still finds time for tennis and doodling on an unfinished violin concerto, still entertains such friends as the Leonard Bernsteins, Richard Rodgerses and Dick Cavetts. He frequently gets away with his wife of 27 years, Ballerina Vera Zorina, for long weekends at their second home in Santa Fe...
This, in the minds of the competition judges who were deciding back in early 1957 on the design for a new Opera House, must have ruled against the pat solution of an International Style box. But nobody in the architectural profession, in or out of fe Australia, could have predicted what the judges finally selected from the 233 entries that had been submitted from 32 countries...
...That's playing with history," objected State Cultural Properties Review Committee Chairman Albert Schroeder. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," said State Historian Myra Ellen Jenkins. As the controversy wore on, one Santa Fe wag suggested placing a fig leaf over the word savage. Someone else proposed a second obelisk dedicated to "the gallant Indians who died fighting for their homeland...
...Santa Fe city council turned the problem over to the state. Its solution: an explanatory plaque, to be placed alongside the offending monument, that will read in part: "Monument texts are wont to reflect the character of the time in which they are written and the temper of those who wrote them. Hopefully, attitudes change and prejudices dissolve...