Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooner Eddie Fisher, who can use some good publicity these days, set up a $2,000 award in modern music and a $4,000 award for classical music at Brandeis University, both named for banjo-eyed Vaudevillian Eddie Cantor, who gave Fisher his first show-biz break nine years ago. Appointed advisers for the scholarships: Cantor for the modern, dynamic Conductor Leonard Bernstein for the classical...
With any such retelling comes the added fascination of comparison: it is like returning to a former home to see how someone else has furnished it. In Cue for Passion the furnishings are sparser and extremely modern, with a picture window to let in strong, clarifying, psychological light. Hamlet, called Tony Burgess, comes home-sulky, sneering, perverse-after two years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified...
...structure was directly across from one of the gems of 18th century architecture-the revered Ecole Militaire, facing on the semicircular Place de Fontenoy on Paris' Left Bank. But except for conforming to the curve of the place, UNESCO made no concessions. It is clearly and emphatically modern...
Nervi's task was the formidable one of carrying through on the structural problems, making a concrete edifice that would appear not only airy but also monumental and imposing. Placing a building on stilts (pilotis) has been modern architectural fashion ever since France's Le Corbusier introduced it back in the 1920s. But rarely has a column in concrete had such handsome treatment as Nervi evolved for the 72 paired columns that hold the seven-story Secretariat some 16 ft. in the air. Tapered from a rectangular cross section at the top to a near oval...
...decided former Chief of French Museums Georges Salles. "A splendid poem in concrete and glass," said Paris' leading art review, L'Oeil. And from the top of the Eiffel Tower, guides were beginning matter-of-factly to point out UNESCO as one of the marvels of Paris. Modern architecture, like modern art, was beginning to seem like something the French had been in favor of all along...