Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati's Taft Museum. The museum in itself is a small masterpiece of selection and display, should be a mecca for the entire Midwest -yet only about 100 people visit it on an average day. (Out-of-towners automatically head for the more famed Cincinnati Art Museum instead...
Alexander Calder's coat-hanger agglomerations of free forms twist and bob lazily on the breeze, exploit the possibilities for chance movement that reside in lightly balanced equilibriums. Lye's idea is to exploit instead the resiliences of high-tempered steels and flexible plastics. He raises simple abstract constructions of such materials on pedestals containing silent motor-vibrators. At a taped signal, the motors go into action, moving first slowly, then faster in a carefully calculated cycle, and the sculptures begin taking shape upon...
Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...
...pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir instead of cashing...
Brand believes that loans from the U.S. Government should supplement rather than replace U.S. private industry abroad. Says he: "I want to see American industry do the job. Instead of promoting state enterprises, let's foster the private side." As head of the Development Loan Fund, he intends to stress private enterprise more than the fund has done, give more loans to foreign businesses instead of governments. He also hopes to get more money from Congress. Right now the fund has $53 million to give out in loans, but the loan applications total $1.4 billion...