Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Museum of Sundsvall, center of the timber industry, keeps the stuffed remnants of the only wild "skvader" hitherto known to have been caught. The skvader has a hare's head and legs (with the typical capercailzie red patch over the eyes), and the wings and hind body of a capercailzie. . . . Very little is known about the habits of the skvader. Owing to the great wing loading, its flyability is probably poor, if any. The taxidermist, who prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able...
...Amelia Goes to the Ball (1938) and The Island God (1942) got fair to middling notices, but they did not stay long in the Met's repertory.* Says Menotti: "Opera should be taken out of the museum. The trouble with opera isn't that it isn't what it used to be, but that...
...events of an afternoon which his hero spends in bed with a woman. For all its daring detail the episode is lifeless. It is too clinical, too intellectualized-as the protagonist says-"I found that I was expressing admiration of her points as if she were some kind of museum piece." And for Wilson, all the residents of Hecate County are museum pieces, the bedeviled as well as the Devils. The hero's relations with both of the women in his life, Imogene and Anna, remain on a detached level that is cold and heartless. Nowhere does he reveal...
Winston Churchill's likeness* by Douglas Chandor, well-heeled portrayer of the well-heeled; brought probably the highest U.S. price ever paid for a contemporary portrait: $25,000. The buyer: Bernard Baruch, who planned to keep it a while, then decide what museum should have...
...years of cartooning and crusading, Fitz has drawn some 12,000 cartoons. In its Manhattan show, the A.A.A. has 46 of the recent best. Fitz cartoons can also be seen in the private collections of his victims all over the world. President Truman has six. The Moscow Museum of Modern Western Art owns some. Others are on view in the faraway Wanganui Museum in New Zealand...