Word: gaya
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Junior John Reitz led the team by splitting his twelve matches. Gaya Tatrallyay was expected to be a challenger for individual honors, but his play was completely off. He lost several one-point decisions and finished at 4-8, while Marc Irvings, a sophomore, won only three bouts...
...reminders" of the sage himself. A reminder could be a stupa that possessed no relics but was a replica of one that did. There were also small clay tablets that recalled the sites of the four Great Events in Buddha's life-Kapilavastu, where he was born; Bodh Gaya, where he attained enlightenment under the Bo tree; Sarnath, where he "set the Wheel of Doctrine spinning"; and Kusinagara, where he died. For a long time the Buddhists considered it unthinkable that anyone should reproduce the figure of Buddha himself...
...only art treasures that are safe, says Gaya-Nuňo. are those in the big museums: the best of the private collections seem "irretrievably destined to emigrate to the U.S.. if not in this generation then during the next." The great museums of Europe themselves are already developing serious shortcomings in the thoroughness and quality of their collections. The Prado may still be the "indispensable museum" for Spanish art of the 16th through 18th centuries, says Gaya-Nuňo, but for Spanish Gothic art, one must go to America...
...American cities," continues Gaya-Nuňo, "which 50 years ago were little more than a set for a western-a street, some bars, horses and cowboys-now have museums far superior to those in Amiens or Pisa." At the same time, the big museums, such as Manhattan's Metropolitan, "are just about to surpass definitively the great museums of Europe, just as the small ones surpassed their European counterparts a long time...
...European need only visit the Cloisters on the Hudson to see what has happened. There, in one "arbitrary hodgepodge," are the Saint-Guilhem cloister, the chapter house of Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut, woodwork from the House of Francis I in Abbeville, the cloisters of Cuxa and Bonnefont. Concludes Gaya-Nuňo: "The whole of Europe is nothing but a Flea Market that waits, full of anxiety and emotion, for the arrival of the nouveáu riche...