Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What then is art? The modern sages offer no solid answers. Says Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art: "It is an expression of individual sensibilities. A neon Coca-Cola sign is in a very real sense a piece of art. The fact that anyone could make it is more or less beside the point. The fact is that no one else did make it." Says the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr, who is viewed by many as the untiaraed pope of the modern art world: "It is folly to say what is art. Works...
...specific exemption of the government. Pindling claimed that mob elements were taking over the casinos. To dramatize both charges, he has gone before the United Nations Colonial Committee in New ork twice in the past two years, flew to London in November to make the same charges to Fred Lee, then Colonial Secretary, against the United Bahamian Party...
Chance to Get Away. It had to happen, says Pleasants, if only as an antidote to the dulling sameness of the note-perfect performances. A boldly outspoken theorist, Pleasants goes so far as to say that this straitjacket is so confining that some pop vocalists such as Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, whose jazz improvisations are a direct counterpart of bel canto, are "technically better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers...
...lean prose, Manchester skillfully traces Oswald's mounting frustrations and emphasizes his wife Marina's role in bringing him to the breaking point. "Lee," he writes, "had thought he had found a beautiful, dedicated Communist who would forever be his submissive darling. He had expected her to scorn the world that scorned him and reject the materialism of a capitalist society." Instead, she jeered at all his failures and paid him the ultimate insult of leaving him. Somewhat melodramatically, Manchester pictures Oswald "going mad" while watching a flickering TV set the night before the murder. The author never...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, 81, president of the National Council of Churches from 1935 to 1936 and vice president of the World Council of Churches from 1948 to 1952, who spent his life in an attempt to join the nine U.S. Protestant denominations into a single church with 23 million members, warning that Protestantism faced "reorganization or disintegration" in the modern world, and in the process strongly influenced the Constitution on Church Union, which is dedicated to Protestant Unity; of pneumonia; in Atlanta...