Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cuba has no policy against letting scholars visit the United States, Cuban and U.S. officials in Washington said this week, adding that visits of a week or less for speeches or conferences are common. Some institutions, among them the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, have ongoing programs for the exchange of groups of researchers...
...guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans danced, at last, at their eighth stop, the party in the ornate Pension Office Building, to Moonlight Serenade, and again at the Smithsonian's American History Museum to You 'II Never Know...
...Other nonprofit magazines include National Geographic, Ms., Mother Jones and Smithsonian...
...west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
...always been at his acerbic best when challenging modern ideas of what is civilized in fields such as clothing, street design, architecture, even staircases. A former visiting professor of art at Yale who has organized exhibits for the U.S. Government abroad, he is now scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City. There his latest "salute to the unknown art of living" is a wryly provocative exhibition designed to prove that bathing, eating, sleeping, sitting and a few other domestic matters were managed better in older cultures, especially in the Orient...