Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the university's brand-new president, Terris Moore had just met the faculty, accepted a world's record brown bearskin for the university museum and got settled for the summer in the girls' infirmary while a house was being built for him. A week before, Alaskans had come from miles around to say goodbye to the university's founder and first president, leathery Charles E. Bunnell (TIME...
Later, he taught accounting at the University of California and wrote Practical Farm Accounts, which sold 100,000 copies. In 1945 he took over the presidency of Boston's Museum of Natural History, in four years cleaned out its moldy exhibits and put through a plan to build one of the most modern museums...
Both Boccioni and the Futurist movement died in World War I, but not the idea of breaking with the musty past. That persisted even during the Fascist passion for neoclassicism. Last week, visitors at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were getting their first good look at what the Italians had been up to all those years...
...thanks to Cincinnati's loyal music lovers, the "Zoopera" could afford such losses. Last winter, after the opera had accumulated a deficit of some $44,000, Cincinnatians subscribed to a whopping Fine Arts Fund to support the summer series along with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum. The opera...
...Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally that when the bells ring and the cannon are fired, and people go rushing about frantic with grief, and my mortal clay is stuffed for the National Museum at Washington, it will be the veritable end of the noble and lovely creature once answering to the name of Henry...