Word: metropolitanism
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Colgate University Richard Shinn, LL.D., president, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Alvin Ailey, D.F.A., choreographer...
...Photography, Newhall is best known for his study of the progression of photography as an art form and a medium of communication. His books include History of Photography, The Daguerrotype in America, and Airborne Camera. The 70-year-old Newhall has also been involved with photographic study at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
...putsch against Charles de Gaulle. After De Gaulle accorded Algeria its independence in 1962, the legionnaires disinterred their most illustrious dead from their desert graves and transported their pink Saharan granite Monument aux Morts from 118-year-old headquarters in Sidi bel-Abbés in Algeria to metropolitan France, together with their battle-worn flags, standards, regimental colors and a multitude of medals and decorations. These tokens of the legion's past now repose at its new headquarters at Aubagne, ten miles east of Marseilles...
...addition to legions of capitalists, the school has produced public servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Actor Jack Lemmon. Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits...
...objects vs. Tut's 55. Negotiations for this loan were initiated by National Gallery Director Carter Brown even before the U.S. and the German Democratic Republic established diplomatic relations in 1974. Also involved were the U.S. museums to which the show will later travel, New York's Metropolitan Museum and the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums...