Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interior of Philharmonic Hall is divided into a lower and an upper lobby and the concert hall proper. The upper lobby will be dominated by the as yet incomplete "Orpheus and Apollo," a pair of huge, free-form sculptures of gold Munz metal. Designed by Richard Lippold, who also produced the "World Tree" of Harkness Commons, "Orpheus and Apollo" will be visible from the plaza outside and hopefully will establish a sense of immediate excitement both outside...
...kind used for burials by Hittites, whose mighty empire flourished in the interior of Asia Minor, several hundred miles east of Sardis. George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, believes that this burial takes the history of Sardis back to the fourteenth or thirteenth century...
Gamal Abdel Nasser is about as enthusiastic about the zaars as he is about bar mitzvahs, and has long been anxious to eliminate them as a vestige of the Dark Ages. Nasser's Interior Ministry has finally got around to banning them completely under threat of a six-month to three-year jail term. Uprooting the zaars may prove difficult in remote villages, but Nasser will have no trouble in the cities, where a more sophisticated populace has outgrown them and where the neighbors are bound to hear the racket if anyone tries to stage one. Scores...
Politically, despite the pleadings of U.S. officials-and rumbles of discontent from his opponents-Diem is in no mood to relax his authoritarian rule. Economically, the war has taken a heavy toll. The Viet Cong have cut off rice shipments from the interior and rubber production is down sharply. Gold and foreign exchange reserves have dipped from $222 million in 1960 to $158 million, and export earnings will drop this year from $70 million to $55 million. Nearly $2.5 billion in U.S. aid has only made South Viet Nam more dependent on-and more critical of-its friends...
...Republican and conservative papers, who had previously on occasion expressed admiration for the young President. But even Kennedy's close friend, Columnist Joseph Alsop, touring around Europe, was now disturbed by the symptoms of irresolution. Bristling at Khrushchev's ursine threats to visiting U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall ("It is no laughing matter when Khrushchev flatly informs a member of the U.S. Cabinet that he is going to take Berlin . . . and that the U.S. will do nothing about it in the end"), Alsop called for action. "Perhaps the time has come to get angry," he wrote...