Word: select
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Oldest and most select club of U.S. artists (328 members) is the National Academy of Design. This week, aged 116, the National Academy opened a new home, its first permanent quarters in over 40 years. The new Academy, gift of shy Millionaire Archer M. Huntington, who, with his family, has probably founded more museums (13) than any other private citizen in the U.S., consists of two classical greystone Fifth Avenue mansions, spliced together with elevators and other modern fixings...
...group of painter friends in protest against the poetry readings and discussions of landscape gardening that went on at the American Academy of Arts, the National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...
...first horn, every fiddler a shot at being concertmaster. In a typical session, one or two full-length works, preferably-modern, are gone through with all the fits & starts of a real rehearsal. Then they are played without a break. Audiences-friends of the players-are small, select...
...National Broadcasting Co. celebrated its isth birthday last week-15 years during which it has become the U.S.'s most continuously audible institution. In a new, copper-lined studio-theater in Manhattan's Radio City a select and sober audience heard two hours and 45 minutes of air festival, carried over all 243 stations of the Red and Blue networks...
Last week a Board panel, without making specific recommendations, suggested to the President that both sides be asked: 1) to agree to accept as final the recommendations of the entire Board; or 2) to choose a joint board from both sides to settle the matter; and if that failed, select an arbitrator whose decision would be flat and final. In any event, the Board proposed to exact from both sides the promise to continue production of soft coal...