Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...
...probably more reform organizations per square foot than any other great city." But few people seem really to care. While sky highways have been built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will someday burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the buildings looks even older yet. Lacking high buildings, long vistas, and straight or numbered streets, Boston boasts cow tunnels along with as dirty...
...decades have Manhattan muse um-and gallery-goers witnessed such a heaping helping of British art as is spread out before them this season. The main course, in the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's "Masters of British Paint ing" show, is a 150-year survey of 31 artists (see color pages), ranging from the visions of William Blake to the hallucinatory portraits of Francis Bacon, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to the cool, elegant abstractions of Ben Nicholson and Stanley Spencer's portrayal of a New Jerusalem near his green and pleasant home town...
Manhattan's E. and A. Silberman Gal leries, slated for round-the-country museum showings, and a whole parade of one-man and group shows in the galleries. Says Manhattan Gallery Owner Catherine Viviano: "There are great things coming out of England, more exciting and more alive than have been seen in years...
...Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star in World War I, for a few years half-heartedly played the playboy, gradually began to spend more and more of his time giving his money away (among recipients of the Field fortune: Chicago's Hull House and Museum of Natural History, the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society...