Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Max Abramovitz, the architect for Lincoln Center's first constituent, has presided over a pleasing and very successful mingling of art and science. He began the evolution of Philharmonic Hall in 1957 and proceeded through almost a hundred designs in over a thousand renditions, before the final plan was established...
...Room for Standees. The crowds that made their way past the surrounding rubble to last week's concerts entered a nine-story hall designed by Architect Max Abramovitz, its glass sides framed by 42 columns faced with travertine, its main foyer rising almost 50 ft. and dominated by a five-ton "space sculpture," still unfinished, by Richard Lippold. With 2,646 seats (with holes on the underside to absorb sound), Philharmonic Hall is 114 seats smaller than Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, and it provides no room for standees. But the opening gave New York two major concert halls...
...Tommy Burns halted Irish Jem Roche in Dublin in 1 min. 28 sec., and Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in 2 min. 4 sec. in their rematch in June...
...greatest German artists of his day, but neither in his lifetime nor in the 75 years since his death has the German public got to know him well. Other artists have long admired him; but the very fame of these admirers-men like Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Max Beckmann-tended to dim his own. Last week the Bremen Kunsthalle was showing an exquisite exhibition of 116 drawings by the artist that Die Zeit calls "the dusty giant of the 19th century," and the story was still the same. The critics raved, but the general public still withheld its cheers...
...Max W. Byrd '64, a popular student magician, originally signed up with the HSA agency, but withdrew in protest at the booking charge. Byrd said yesterday that he often cuts his charge for people who cannot pay the full price, and that he "could not absorb" a $3 booking fee. Byrd also said that he got "more business than he could handle" through Student Employment...