Word: metropolitanism
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From his offices in upstate New York, Houghton serves as chairman of two mighty corporations: Corning, Inc., the $23 billion technology firm, and Harvard University, the $27 billion institution of higher learning. (He’s also chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a director at MetLife and ExxonMobil, among other high-powered projects...
...affinity for art led her to a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after she graduated, where she met her husband Edwin Schlossberg—a quiet cultural historian...
...really listens and is interested in the people who come before him,” says Sara Bershtel, the associate publisher of Metropolitan Books, which produces Gawande’s books. “I suppose that’s a very good thing to value when you’re speaking to people who are about to work in medicine...
...cartwheeling Lee Friedlander retrospective that settles into the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City this week arrives just days after the very popular Diane Arbus retrospective completed its New York run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Friedlander comes, Arbus goes. You imagine them saluting each other with whistle blasts like ships passing at sea. That's in part because their shows are the latest development in a process that began in 1967, when they were both introduced to a wider public in a pivotal MOMA exhibition that was entirely devoted to them and a third relative...
...Greece in Athens. "The flock has lost faith in [Eirinaios]." Eirinaios, 66, is wreathed in mystery and rumor. Born Emmanuel Skopelitis on the Greek island of Samos, he was elected Patriarch in 2001. During a bitter election campaign, local newspapers ran photos purporting to show Eirinaios' main rival, Metropolitan Timothy of Vestra, engaging in sex acts with several men. Timothy's supporters say the photos were doctored, and blame the Eirinaios camp. Israel's Cabinet refused for almost three years to ratify the election because of accusations that Eirinaios wrote an anti-Semitic letter to the late Palestinian leader Yasser...