Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pratt Institute, he went to work for LIFE. While there, he designed the series of advertisements that showed the LIFE logotype cutout of a long catalogue of items: IBM cards, theater tickets, miniature flags. Those Wheeler cutouts are now in the collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum...
...basement of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel behind a heavy wooden door with only a discreet brass name plate to identify it. Designer Cecil Beaton has maintained the speakeasy image by decking the joint out with dark red and green wallpaper and gleaming brass fixtures, plus just a hint of modern psychedelia in the lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues, and membership runs to the likes of Senator Jacob Javits, Henry...
...last summer I took an uptown bus to the Museum of Modern Art. Down in the theater in the cellar I cried it out with Greta Garbo in Queen Christiana. Upstairs I walked through the most beautiful exhibit of photographs I have ever seen and finally, I found myself by the pool in the museum garden. It was dark and warm and Buddy Guy was playing. Close and sad at first, then wild and glad...
...photography show, the largest American showing of Cartier-Bresson photographs in twenty years, is now at the Worcester Art Museum. You should go. It consists of 148 photographs, all but twenty-five taken since 1950. All of the pictures come from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and were chosen for the show by Cartier-Bresson and the Curator of Photography...
...defend the party position that the invasion of Czechoslovakia was "regrettable but necessary." It was easy to see that she was uncomfortable. It was easy to see that she was more interested in black power than in labor unions. Her speech dealt with the "irrelevance of liberalism" to the modern world, but in many ways her communist vision seemed, too, to be irrelevant. Someone asked about Martin Luther King, "He was a tremendous human being," Mrs. Mitchell said sadly. "But I do not accept non-violence as a principle. I am closer to Malcolm X. He stood for freedom...