Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Norwegian shipping tycoon first showed his bride, a lover of 19th century art, around his Manhattan apartment back in 1956, she took one horrified look at the wealth of modern art hanging on the walls and gasped: "It's a nice place, but get rid of those terrible paintings!" Twelve years later, Sonja Henie, 55, is finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow...
...important decisions have been made." Nat Owings heartily agrees. He knows from experience that once decisions have been built into concrete, they are there to stay. He also sees the architect as the only person trained to maintain the balance between those esthetic qualities that give grace to modern city living and the multiple commercial, cultural and humanitarian demands made on the organization of the city...
Transplantation of a human heart is without a doubt the most dramatic feat of modern surgery. Yet while the heart is only a pump, the liver, by contrast, is an immensely complex processing factory, with dozens of functions involving the chemistry of metabolism. Transplantation of a liver is far more difficult than that of a heart, and so far equally rare. Eight patients who have received new livers at three U.S. medical centers within the past year are now alive. In the early days of liver transplantation, survival for a month was considered remarkable. Last week one of the patients...
...labor-saving devices for the home, thousands of American women are voluntarily carrying out additional household chores. Despite rabbinical worries about secularization and the loss of religious identity, a surprising number of modern Jewish women-Orthodox, Conservative and even Reform-have decided to undertake the difficult but homely craft of maintaining a kosher home. "The Orthodox always stood for it," says Jewish Sociologist Marshall Sklare. "Today they stand for it more so. The Conservatives, in the past, stood for it rather passively. Now they stand for it actively. And Reform Judaism has a new sensitivity to the importance...
Died. Ruth St. Denis, 90, grande dame of modern dance, whose foresight and inspiration helped change the U.S. from a choreographic wasteland to what is today one of the world's foremost centers of dance; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Starting with classical ballet in 1893, Ruth St. Denis freed it from its formal strictures and blended it with Indian and other Asian dance forms until she produced something uniquely her own. In 1915, with husband Ted Shawn, she formed the Denishawn School and company, from whose ranks sprang such stars as Doris Humphrey and Martha Graham...