Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation emerged from abstraction to reality in the shape of an elegant, three-story, glassy gallery on East 54th Street. Through every spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest...
...little schooling, but no individual has influenced U. S. education more than he. Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education. Prime monument to his influence is Manhattan's Lincoln School, which for 22 years has done more than any other institution to shape U. S. public schools. Last week progressive educators were abuzz about: i) an attempt to put Lincoln School quietly out of the way, 2) an attempt by a Rockefeller grandson to prevent...
...Medina, she showed signs of sexual maturity, began to menstruate. But skeptical Lima doctors took pictures of Lina's teeth and bones, concluded that she was nearer six than five, for her milk teeth had begun to fall out. Her pelvic bones, although small, were adult in shape, and she was, said Dr. Hipólito Larrabure of Lima enthusiastically, "a miniature woman." He cordially invited "some U. S. foundation to send an investigator to Lima" to observe the youngest mother in the world...
...Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
With Doug Anderson, Gordon Halstead, and Captain Phil Hammond back in shape after being injured in the Dartmouth game, the Crimson stickmen easily overran the more experienced, but poorer-conditioned Club players...