Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museum for a small city" in Architectural Forum. "The first problem," he said, "is to establish the museum as a center for the enjoyment, not the interment, of art." To do this, he proposed to erase "the barrier between the work of art and the community" with a garden approach for the display of sculpture, plus a single, glass-curtained gallery built on a steel frame with freestanding interior walls. "The architectural space thus achieved," he concluded, "becomes defining rather than confining...
...soon as its plans were made public 31 years ago, the $6,750,000 Garden State Arts Center near New Bruns wick became the pride of New Jersey. Focal point of it all was a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater designed by Edward Durell .Stone, 66, and to everyone's embarrassment, the very first performance in the craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle...
...WITH PEOPLE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). At Felt Forum in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, in Washington Square Park and on the streets of East Harlem, 150 amateur singers raise their voices in praise of American virtues...
...peaking exactly on time. In St. Louis, 12,500 supporters packed into Kiel Auditorium for a McCarthy rally while 2,000 more listened outside. They cheered so fervently that they even brought a tear to the unemotional Minnesotan's eye. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden on what supporters called "M Night," another 20,000 gathered. Closed-circuit television piped his speech to 22 auditoriums through the country, where 160,000 more heard him. He faces heavy campaign debts-but the faithful that night alone pledged or contributed $2,000,000. "This is my real campaign style," said...
Through the windows may be seen its spacious, 170-acre formal garden, marshaled with airy grace into a tapestry of boxwood mazes, promenades, canals, fountains, staircases, statuary and grottoes that stretch to the horizon. The ornate Chambre du Roi, which lies to the left of the Grand Salon, illustrates the other French addition to the baroque. Luscious nudes hover overhead in trompe-l'eoil with voluptuousness that the Italians never envisioned-or permitted themselves...