Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week many Americans were getting their first good look at the subtly romantic, hilarious and nightmare worlds of Paul Klee. The largest Klee exhibit ever to be shown in the U.S. was in Portland, Ore., on the second lap of a transcontinental tour. At the San Francisco Museum of Art it had broken attendance records for the year...
...Museum Piece? The real objection, in many Senators' minds, was not to the pact but to the arms program. Dulles and Arthur Vandenberg said they were two separate matters. The State Department thought they were linked by implication but actually independent...
...thought they were-and should be-bound together. Said he: "I am going to vote for the pact enthusiastically, because I believe it carries along with it the . . . military implementation for stopping Joe Stalin in his tracks . . . Unless that is ... the meaning of the pact, it is already a museum piece for Stalin's repository of diplomatic scalps...
Last week 20th Century Venice was a dingy shadow of such glories. But in 16 rooms of the vast Palace of the Doges, now an art museum, Venetians and tourists could get a glimpse of Venice at its noontime brightest...
...memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped and broke his neck? (It is on display, as a matter of fact, in the Braunau museum; length...