Word: purists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine months, more than 750,000 people have swarmed through it, and as the queues outside got longer and longer. Guggenheim began to wonder whether the museum should not offer more to the public in the form of more popular lectures, art courses, films and concerts. To such a purist as Sweeney, this was the last straw: Guggenheim's program, he felt, would only result in the museum's squandering its resources at the expense of its primary obligation, the acquisition and display of great...
...England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist mecca, the festival has nonetheless lured nearly 1,000,000 theatergoers, for a box-office gross of $3,000,000. Much of Ontario's pulling power has stemmed from Tyrone Guthrie, perhaps the ablest living Shakespeare director, who likes to take a lesser-known play and tilt...
...game is unorthodox, often appearing to the chess purist to fly in the face of reason. Against Botvinnik, he several times seemed to sacrifice a piece without apparent advantage. But he also achieved his primarily psychological purpose: that of confusing and spoiling the precise calculations of his opponent. Time and again, unexpected Tal moves forced Botvinnik to hesitate so long that he ran into trouble with his time limit, then rushed into making weak moves. Last weekend, with 13 games left to play, Tal led by 6½ to 4½-And in the ninth game of the match, Botvinnik...