Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror. "Mr. Wright's greatest building, New York's greatest building." said Architect Philip Johnson, "one of the greatest rooms of the 20th century." "Frank has really done it," snapped one artist. "He has made painting absolutely unimportant...
Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), opened to the public last week. Discord and controversy had marked it since the day it was commissioned 16 years ago. Wright had proposed "one great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome...
...result, the paintings seem to hover weightlessly in luminous space. "We are not trying to show nature effects in sunlight, but paintings," Sweeney stated. "This is the most spectacular museum interior architecturally in this country. But my job is to show off a magnificent collection to its fullest." Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright, on hand for the opening, doubted that her husband would have shown up, even if he had been alive. "He was too great an artist," she stated firmly, "to forgive the slightest transgression in a creative work...
...city he marked for destruction, Frank Lloyd Wright has built a final monument to his own idiosyncratic genius. It could be criticized and quipped about, but it could not be ignored. Just before he died, Wright predicted it could survive even an atomic bomb: "It would just bounce up and down in the blast, like a mighty spring...
...Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's rare masterpieces...