Word: museums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next days Europe's No. 1 surviving Fascist breathed defiance. At Madrid's War Museum, he proclaimed again "the failure of liberalism [Anglo-American]." He assailed again "the strongest of tyrannies [Russia]." He played on Spanish national pride and long-deferred social hope: "The outside [world] is not important. We are looking to the inside. . . . We are going to make . . . a better social justice, which is the basis of prosperity of the people. . . . Do you think that God would permit barbarism and lack of gallantry in the country of Don Quixote...
...Majestic isn't a museum, which means that all pictures cannot be revived. Current attraction is "Meet John Doe," made by Warner Brothers in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brannan, Barbars Stanwyck, and James Gleason--an entertaining, if not profound, social-conscience picture that has none of the anachronisms in fashion and dialogue that bar many old pictures from the Majestic screen...
...Century paintings from King George's collection-the exhibition covered Greek art from an onion-smooth, onion-shaped head, carved about 3000 B.C., to a painting of Greek resistance fighters of World War II. The Royal Academy show did not compare with the Elgin marbles in the British Museum, but it seemed a wonderful enough world of happy, half-naked, carefree athletes to give most visitors "a feeling of serenity...
...museum directors and antique dealers were being deluged with G.I. art "finds," a lot of them looted. Many a G.I. who had laboriously lugged home a third-class imitative painting on which he put a $10,000 price tag was highly incensed at dealers who offered a take-it-or-leave-it $10. Samples...
Last week, General Unjebanenjebet and his secondhand sarcophagus were ready to follow Psousennes to the Cairo museum. His secret, hidden for 3,000 years...