Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Affiliates of the World University Service include the National Student Association, the National Newman Club, the University Christian Movement, and the Hillel Foundation, all of which have been cited as receiving funds from...
...popular are the sweaters that Manhattan's Bonwit Teller has repeatedly sold out its Pierre Cardin version, at $30 and $37.50, to such customers as Steve McQueen, Jason Robards Jr. and Paul Newman. Cardin, the designer most responsible for the trend, insists that the turtleneck is appropriate for any occasion, provided that the suit it is worn with is "modern"-by which he means a suit designed with a high-cut jacket. The style horrifies restaurant headwaiters, who are still weathering the onslaught of women in pants suits. But it appeals strongly to brolly males on both sides...
...Wilson, John Newman and Bruce Hedendal grabbed seconds in the weight, high jump and shot. Hedendahl's best-ever heave of 53 ft. 5 in. was followed closely by Dick Benka in third and Charlie Ajootian in fifth...
...Nelson Gallery wrote: "The cheeselike surface of his formica triptych opens to reveal-absolutely nothing. This work reaches clear into the unlimited recesses of the mind: recesses that could frighten." Sam Hunter, critic and director of Manhattan's Jewish Museum, commented on a work by Barnett Newman, maximum leader of the minimalists; it was a large canvas, all red except for four thread-thin vertical stripes. Wrote Hunter: "These fragile and oscillating stripes play tricks on the eye and the mind by their alternate compliance and aggression. Brilliantly visible and all but subliminally lost . . . their cunning equivocation quite subverts...
...Esthetics is to art what ornithology is to the birds," quips Barnett Newman. On the contrary, too many modern painters seem to listen first and paint afterward, to be guided by the art theory of others rather than an art instinct of their own. The turnover is so fast that a style is lucky to last more than a couple of years before it is pronounced dead by the critics. With such a declaration, many a collector decides that he had better unload, prices decline, and artists get despondent. More in anger than in jest, Painter Jimmy Ernst ticked...