Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bureau's target was a woman who has long been famous in the U.S. art world: Alsatian-born Baroness Hilla Rebay, 72, the woman who first persuaded the late Solomon R. Guggenheim to buy his famous Kandinskys, directed his museum of nonobjective painting from its opening in 1939 to 1952, and is still a trustee of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The baroness is also a painter, and between 1955 and 1959 she donated eight of her own paintings to three schools, Arizona State College, Milwaukee-Downer College and Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. The market...
...goes well, several years in the same town give him a closeness to his orchestra that he develops into musical accomplishment - as Paul Paray did in ten years with Detroit, and as Robert Whitney is doing in Louisville, Izler Solomon in Indianapolis and Hans Schwieger in Kansas City. Occasionally, as with Szell in Cleveland, the orchestra's sponsors share the maestro's boundless aspirations, and stand back while he takes the orchestra as far from home as its excellence makes it welcome...
...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...
...salvation: love and understanding and forgiveness." Introduced as "that famous former financier of the world," famous former Fertilizer King Billie Sol Estes, 38, told a Negro congregation in Indianapolis: "If man had followed Christ's simple plan, there would be no trouble today." Later in Toledo he called Solomon a "great farmer" for having stored up tons of grain. Both appearances were to raise money to send Church of Christ missionaries to Nigeria, both were sponsored by Old Estes Friend the Rev. Floyd Rose of Toledo, who asked in his introduction: "Is Billie Sol Estes guilty? They said Christ...
After the death of King Solomon, all Israel assembled at Shochem to make Rohebeam, the son of Solomon, their king. But there the ten tribes of Israel revolted and joined together into the Northern Kingdom of Israel, with Shochem as its first capital...