Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Military dictatorships are more and more likely to take over in those countries to fill political vacuums," Rupert Emerson, professor of Government, told alumni assembled in Fogg Museum. Along with Robert Bowie, director of the Center for International Studies, and Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Emerson noted the difficulties faced by the 750 million people in nations freed from colonialism since World...
Over 500 alumni of the Class of '34 and their families joined festivities last night at Symphony Hall. Following separate dinners at Symphony Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts, and at the Union, graduates met with seniors and intermediates at the all-Harvard Concert...
...shell house in history. The Pantheon in Rome is half a shell. Kiesler modeled a true shell, an egglike construction balanced on stilts and tensile all around-not just at the top and sides. Last year, 35 years after he proposed it, Kiesler was commissioned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to carry out his still-revolutionary idea in model form. He secluded himself in his Greenwich Village loft, spent month after month brooding, sketching, constructing. The end result is bound to surprise even those who know him. Anchored to its supporting columns as lightly as a dirigible...
Tentative plans have been made to build Kiesler's new departure in architecture in the garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where a full-scale Japanese house was erected for exhibition five years ago. Never a man to waste time waiting for the decisions of practical men, Kiesler has plunged ahead into yet another project-a room for meditation, in which paintings open like windows and sculptures burst treelike from the floor...
...University to help the Museum fully assume a role of responsible leadership in the storage and exhibition of archeological and ethnological specimens. The University should subsidize, if only in part, a major and immediate amelioration of the Museum's present problems. The result will be a Museum which will serve with increased effectiveness not only the Cambridge community at large but, even more important, the small group of students who use the Museum as an essential aid to their education in the science of man and his culture