Word: smithsonian
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...treasures. His wedded life less than joyous, and estranged from his two daughters by his refusal to bless their marriages. Winthrop loved best the private contemplation of his paintings and carvings. But he also felt a strong obligation to posterity. In his reply to a request from the Smithsonian Institution that he leave his collection to the nation. Winthrop said, "I am not so much interested in the general public as I am in the Younger Generation whom I want to reach in their impressionable years..." Winthrop felt he could best fulfill his ambition at Harvard and he became...
...film, after the last flame has been doused, Paul Newman surveys the ruined hulk of his skyscraper. He suggests allowing it to stand as "a monument to all the bullshit" of our age. Probably The Towering Inferno should be placed on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian for the same reason...
...brass, the building has cost $16 million and provoked steady criticism from those who see it as a feat of egotism. (Not even Andrew Mellon, critics complain, insisted that his name should stay in the title of "his" nearby National Gallery.) The Hirshhorn Museum is a branch of the Smithsonian Institution. But for the moment it is saddled with the reputation of a private fief built with public money, so far containing nothing but Hirshhorn art and directed by the man Hirshhorn had previously employed as his private curator...
...informally corrects by noting that Kissinger is "a leading American intellectual." The Kissinger syndrome may also explain the absence from the list of Daniel Boorstin (author of The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream and Decline of Radicalism), who in 1969 was a divisional director of the Smithsonian Institution...
...beached mammals had no food in their stomachs and were suffering from serious infestations of parasitic worms in their middle ears and sinuses. According to Marine Biologists James G. Mead of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History in Washington and John H. Prescott of Boston's New England Aquarium, the worms had apparently been taken in along with meals of fish or squid. Once entrenched, they may have interfered with the whales' highly sensitive, sonar-like echo-location system, which enables them to spot schools offish and other objects. The whales' hearing...