Word: muralism
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...visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut sculptural form. . . Only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand." Other architects agreed, snapped up Nivola's idea to decorate their buildings with sand murals. Among them: Italy's Olivetti Co (typewriters and calculating machines), which commissioned a 15-ft.-by-70-ft. mural for its Manhattan offices, and Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy, who used a Nivola mural to decorate the entrance of a Fifth Avenue apartment building...
Marriage Revealed. Diego Rivera, 69, famed Mexican mural painter; and Emma Hurtado, 39, dancer-model; he for the fifth time, she for the second; on July 29, as he made ready to leave for Russia for a cancer operation; in Mexico City...
...make up time lost in afternoon exercise by sleeping less at night. If University officials are concerned about the physical condition of under-par freshmen, they should still assign the 300 students who annually fail the step-test to a special course, and give more emphasis to the intra-mural program for the rest. The time problem has occasionally been recognized elsewhere. Team managers, who rarely do much exercising, are excused from physical training. In past years, freshmen working for PBH in settlement houses were not required to exercise. Why, then, is there no provision for the working student...
...University could have joined the six-college league, but its growing House athletics and intra-mural schedule didn't provide enough material to make the venture worthwhile. Without the Crimson, six teams--Lafayette, Manhattan, Princeton, Rutgers, Villanova, and Yale--banded together under the new league. During the past 20 years, Manhattan, Villanova, and Yale have dropped out in favor of Pennsylvania, Navy, and Cornell...
...Spain in 1952, he met Francisco Cossio who had never had an exhibition in the U.S. but was acclaimed at home as one of Spain's foremost contemporaries. TIME'S story on Cossio (Sept. 21, 1953) was accompanied by a full-page color reproduction of his mural of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. An example of a new artist is Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner (now a U.S. citizen), first spotted by TIME in 1947. Later, he was considered important enough for us to reproduce in color four pages of his work (TIME...