Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barley for Horses. In all the Orient the Japanese are the only mountaineering exceptions. At the turn of the century Japanese army officers were poling around the rugged terrain of Korea and Manchuria, even Siberia, picking up information for their military maps. In 1941, with war just ahead, the Japanese had a large expedition climbing the Himalayas of India's Punjab, hunting hardy wild mountain barley for the horses and men of their cavalry, and at home the sport of mountaineering kept abreast of political and military needs. The Japanese alps crawled with amateur climbers. Biggest goal of civilian...
Fashion trends for this summer will be as exotic as the Orient, as sleek as sheaths, as versatile as two-season designing will permit, and as fashionable as ever. Both women's and men's clothing will essentially follow convention, yet there will be twists of the bizarre...
John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, specifically attacked suggestions 1) to establish a cross-departmental Division of the Visual Arts; 2) to change the name and limit the scope of the Department of Fine Arts, while removing studio work to a new "Design Center"; and 3) to orient the teaching of art toward undergraduate distribution, possibly at the expense of concentration...
...bereted paratroopers, sailors and the képis blancs of the French Foreign Legion, all was quiet. By the hundreds and thousands the French, with no place in the new independent state of Viet Nam, were leaving the city they had once made famous as "the Paris of the Orient...
...world of the Pacific Northwest's mystic Morris Graves is seen in low-keyed colors: dark browns, misty greys, the glint of surf. Done with techniques heavily influenced by the Orient, his work reveals a world of nature, ranging from joyous pines to blind and wounded birds, that is at once familiar and yet hauntingly mysterious. His current retrospective exhibition of 94 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Whitney Museum shows what an increasing number of collectors and critics have come to realize: Painter Graves at 45 has developed one of the most successful, personalized idioms...