Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Building." Following Nasser's blast, Serraj met the press to relate a modern Arabian Nights tale, a sort of Scheherazade with photostats. The chunky, blue-chinned colonel, who also discovered a plot last summer when his government was closing an arms deal with Soviet Russia, said that Saud had approached him through one of Saud's fathers-in-law, Syrian-born Assad Ibrahim. According to Ibrahim, said Serraj, Saud considered Nasser's union "Egyptian imperialism," and had sworn "by his father's soul that this union shall not take place." Ibrahim forthwith offered Serraj financial...
Swept out of fashion by streamlined functional modern, Tiffany's work is now having its first major Manhattan exhibition since his death, at 84, in 1933. Behind the current Tiffany exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is the same unease that has sent architects back to Gaudi for inspiration. In an age when man's vision seems increasingly hemmed in by a machine-made environment, there is an urge to draw new strength from adventuresome craftsmen who knew how to combine richness with beauty...
...days in Chicago, Marc Chagall, who ranks with Braque, Matisse and Picasso in the history of modern art, spoke (in French, through an interpreter) perhaps more about art and about himself than ever before. Invited by the Committee on Social Thought, an organization that aims to further intellectual awareness in America (previous guests: T. S. Eliot, Jacques Maritain, Arnold Toynbee), visiting Professor Chagall was listed to speak on "Art and Life." To this son of an illiterate Russian barrelmaker who has been a refugee from both Communism and Naziism, art and life are synonymous, and both require only love. "Without...
...supplement the words of Chagall, the University of Chicago hung some 40 of his atmospheric, richly colored works, all borrowed from Chicago area owners, in its Goodspeed Hall. The Chicago appearance was part of a full 70th year for Painter Chagall. Last month Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art staged an extensive exhibit of his work; two new incisive books have been published, Marc Chagall: His Graphic Work, edited by Franz Meyer (Harry N. Abrams; $12.50), and Marc Chagall, by Walter Erben (Praeger...
...WHEN General Electric gave up Fair Trade and minimum-fixed prices for its wares last week (see Retail Trade), it belatedly recognized a basic fact of modern U.S. retailing. Nobody, or practically nobody, pays list price any more-for appliances, or for autos, furniture, cameras, jewelry, even baby buggies. As one Milwaukee retailer says: "The price tag on my merchandise means nothing...