Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be destroyed except minor specimens which may be retained for scientific or museum purposes...
Architect Wright has never built anything in Manhattan before. He improved the occasion by lecturing the newsmen on art & life. He called the big grey Metropolitan Museum, a few blocks away on Fifth Avenue, an "undemocratic," outdated stone quarry. Rooms should only be about 12 ft. high, he explained, so people will not be made to feel insignificant. Pointing to his model, he sermonized: "Democracy demands this type of building. The thing you can't get any more in church you ought to get here; the health, vitality and beauty of the human imagination...
...York should keep on building with doors and windows and separate floor slabs one above the other.'' His building has only two doors (both on the outside; none between rooms), one long spiral window, which winds like the floor in gradually expanding, gradually ascending circles. The museum's wide-open interior is lighted from a dome of pyrex tubing...
...Tolstoy, the Soviets decided, should be commemorated with a museum -the stationmaster's dwelling at Astapovo, where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...
Admiral William F. Halsey finally rang down the curtain on his vaudeville act about riding the Mikado's white horse: after all, Hirohito's personal belongings were still his. The saddle sent by Reno would go to the U.S. Naval Academy museum, unless Reno wanted...