Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper, Dear World, the musical prepping in Boston for its New York debut, has a promising premise, one that could even be exciting in the execution: an adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's Madwoman of Chaillot with Angela Lansbury as the title character. On stage, though, it's a failure and not a hell...
Helmsing had urged the paper to drop the word Catholic from its title; the editorial pointed out that the N.C.R. had been conceived as a journal that was within the church but not an official part of it. "We intend to go on being a Catholic paper," wrote Hoyt, "concerned with Catholic activities, values and ideas. We do not consider ourselves to have been severed from the community...
...many others. Since Helmsing's blast, 66 journalists from other U.S. Catholic publications have signed a statement of intellectual support for the N.C.R. Though 1,090 subscriptions have been canceled, the paper has gained 3,849 new subscribers...
...noted in 1550, "achieve in the first sketch of their work, as though guided by a sort of fire of inspiration, a certain measure of boldness: but afterwards, in finishing it, the boldness vanishes." The first sketch of which Vasari spoke was usually an oil sketch on relatively fragile paper or unprimed canvas. On it, the artist of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries delineated his ideas, often in considerable detail, and submitted them to a patron for approval. The dash and daring all too often vanished when he transferred his design to an immense ceiling or wall. One reason...
...rural parts of the U.S., where building codes, union labor and obstructive bureaucrats are scarce, imaginative architects and builders have lately achieved some triumphs. To replace the reeking hovels inhabited by California migrant farm workers, Berkeley Architects Sanford Hirshen and Sim Van der Ryn designed $1,200 shelters of paper and plastic foam that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab...