Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres of glass façades. chrome and exposed steel. Instead. Architect Stone turned to his own great love of classic monuments and deep love of beauty. "In my own case," he says, "I feel the need for richness, exuberance, and pure, unadulterated freshness...
...play a role in veiling unsightly pockmarks of urban blight which for economic reasons must stand? Stone is excited by the fact that two major U.S. cities are considering it. But his main hope is that he has touched off a new movement. "What we need is to put pure beauty into our buildings," he says fervently. "Let's strike the bell for beauty...
...will hang alone in a special Spanish-pavilion annex. The Franco regime will celebrate the fair's inauguration by issuing a commemorative postage stamp bearing a reproduction of the Dali work. Later, said Catalan-born Artist Dali, the painting will go to Spain's "majestic temple of pure, classic lines, worthy of my work, the Escorial, and there, in its full dignity, it shall guard Philip...
...Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto, performed in Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The work by 34-year-old Juilliard Teacher Mennin was driving, gusty, brilliantly animated, but it often seemed more like an exercise in pure virtuosity than a statement of musical intent...
...times some heavy deficits for the company's British owners. What magnetized Hanna, which had been built into a $250 million empire by former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, was not the gold heart; it was the iron breast, 2 billion tons of high-grade (60% to 70% pure) ore in the surrounding hills. But getting it was another matter...