Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roethke. Academic rankings are banished-teachers are "Mr.," "Miss" or "Mrs." and department chairmanships are rotated. Girls are especially close to their counselors, whom they meet weekly for "encounters" on every subject from existentialist philosophy to their love life. Graduates often fetch up in the arts; among them are Painter Helen Frankenthaler, Dancer Ethel Winter and Carol Channing of the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly...
...helped by Miss Bernays' failure to make most of the minor characters come alive. For example, the various dirty old and dirty young men the girls meet in Italy are somewhat far-fetched, to say the least. And somehow, one can't quite picture an alcoholic painter-lover, who "treated life as if it were a hard-boiled egg, cracking it open and devouring it regularly...
Textured Platoons. Victor Lundy's IBM building in Cranford, N.J. (see over page), also goes all out for adornment. "I want my buildings to be exuberant," says the 42-year-old architect, who also is an abstract painter. His industrial structure too is a box, 200 ft. by 200 ft. square. But with its elaborate zigzag carapace of sand-pink precast concrete blocks, Lundy's building proclaims the architect's belief in sculptural architecture. "The building is sassy, square and solid," says Lundy. "It says...
Lowell's dismay at our country's recent actions in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic." From the 400 guests, Macdonald got only seven signatures.* The others were either embarrassed or outraged. "Adolescent," snapped Author Ralph Ellison. Fumed Painter Peter Hurd: "It's just plain uncivilized." Macdonald was unintimidated. "I came here," he said, "to make trouble politically. I'm the bad fairy come to the christening...
...According to Macdonald: Sculptors Isamu Noguchi, Herbert Ferber and Peter Voulkos, Painter Willem de Kooning, Art News Executive Editor Thomas Hess, Brandeis University Museum Director Sam Hunter, and Library of Congress Poetry Consultant Reed Whittemore...