Word: manhattan
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...great private collection of them in the U.S., gathered over 40 years by Dr. Walter Compton of Elkhart, Ind. Last week 46 of his classical blades-the tachi or long cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the dirks known as tantos and wakizashis-went on view at Manhattan's Japan Society. The show is a scholarly event of the first importance, and its catalogue-mainly written by Japan's leading student of blades, 29-year-old Ogawa Morihiro-becomes at one stroke the standard text on its subject in English. But even for the non-expert the show...
...move to the countryside in the Midwest, fled his native New York for the open skies of Colorado, where he worked on a small newspaper in the remote city of Grand Junction. Woodbury returns there frequently when Windy City life begins to pall. In the same spirit, Manhattan-based Reporter-Researcher Sarah Button regularly retreats to her family home, a farm in Delaware. For Reporter-Researchers Peggy Berman and Susanne Washburn, who also worked on the story, happiness is the hills of Vermont, where both have weekend retreats...
Pure Vision. As the English experience shows, wanting, or even legislating, a national theater is no guarantee of getting one. When Manhattan's Lincoln Center complex was erected, many U.S. playgoers half-supposed that they were getting a kind of prefabricated national theater. The recent Napoleonic efforts of the indefatigable Joseph Papp demonstrate that without the framework of tradition, such hope was unrealistic. What is needed is the meshing of disparate elements into an organic whole. The salient factors are the physical plant, the guiding personality, common aesthetic purpose and access to the public purse, together with the mature...
Actress Diana Rigg mesmerized students at Manhattan's New School for Social Research last semester with her comments about the pitfalls of performing in the nude. Said she: "I used to make my body up because otherwise you look like a piece of old cod under the stage lights." Magician Doug Henning demonstrated scarf tricks and philosophized on how magic led him to the study of Zen. NBC Newscaster Tom Snyder arrived for class with two mobile vans and a crew of 65. He then televised all the students on the Tomorrow show...
Economist Thorstein Veblen, Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey founded it in a few Manhattan brownstones. Their aim: enlivening traditional learning. From the start, they succeeded. In the 1920s, the school offered the first college-level courses on black culture, taught by W.E.B. DuBois; in the '30s Martha Graham taught pioneering classes in modern dance...