Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the band was in its roaring prime. The selections-I Cried For You, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Sweet and Low-carry a mistily nostalgic air, the big band sound is refulgent, and the phonograph shivers to a boldly swinging beat that has all but disappeared from the modern dance orchestra...
Smith and Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston. Both finished out of the big prize money. But as a whole, the exhibition proved that the modern, peculiarly American idiom of abstract expressionism has become the lingua franca of art the world over. Murky and only half articulate, it is nevertheless spoken everywhere. The idiom has plenty of champions, and may yet find its poet...
BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution...
...State University Press last week, able young (35) Director Donald R. Ellegood, who worked at Oklahoma under Savoie Lottinville, was busy culling a list of some 350 manuscripts that includes something for everyone: biographies of Confederate generals, an eyewitness account of the 18th century Haitian revolution, the secrets of modern hurricane forecasting. Other university presses are ready this fall with a list of impressive books that might never see print without university backing. Harvard University Press (over 100 titles last year) is bringing out the first of four volumes of John Adams' diaries. This month, Yale will publish...
...broke. He is a charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes, as do all the patients, that Les Alpes is only an interlude, a place where bracing air, good food, and the wonders of modern medicine will bring back a normal life and freedom from the threat of relapse. Many of the patients are graduates of other sanatoria, and their hopes are tempered by former failures. To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit...