Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUZEEKA is a fable, contemporary in sensibility, modern in metaphor, and haunting in its humor. John Guare mixes whimsy and horror as his hero trips on the way to his destiny, lands first in the suburbs and finally in Viet...
Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down...
...idea for the Public Theater began with Papp's feeling that, while Shakespeare speaks to modern man, he wanted also to stage contemporary plays dealing with contemporary themes. "I wanted a theater," he explains, "that was doubting, questioning, grey not pink, that took on a social character. The world is dark, and I felt a need for works that would reflect that mood. I did not want another menu theater-a little of this, a little of that-like our regional and repertory companies...
Conceptual art has become a favorite with avant-garde collectors. Kosuth's photographic version of real has already been bought by Businessman-Collector John Powers. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on view ten scale models, sketches and photomontages by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who set out to show what the museum would look like if its building were wrapped in canvas and tied up with rope. Museum Curator William S. Rubin found Christo's ideas, with or without the rope to hang them by, a "poetic" comment on packaging, which has "become...
Defenders of charismatic worship argue that there is Biblical warrant for it. Prophecy was an accepted spiritual gift among the Jews, while both Jesus and his disciples, according to the New Testament, practiced faith healing. St. Paul's epistles refer to "speaking in tongues"-which to its modern practitioners means the sudden effusion of prayer in nonsense syllables...