Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends to follow suit. "I think of a museum as a place of experiment, a proving and testing ground, a laboratory," he says. "I want to show what is living in the minds of artists today...
...championing of free enterprise, National Review gets precious few ads. The captains of industry that it celebrates are reluctant to return the favor, largely because the magazine does not reach enough readers to suit them; profits take precedence over ideology. Besides, Buckley is not a totally reliable supporter. In one breathtaking column for the Review, he managed to equate Henry Ford's divorce with the suicides of Publisher Philip Graham and Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler's keeper. All were men, wrote Buckley "wanting in the stuff of spiritual survival." Ford yanked its advertising. BOAC, on the other hand...
...camera the next day, looking comely in a bright red Dior suit, she toured the town with all the aplomb of a grand lady at her leisure. Daniel Chester French's famous Minuteman statue, she mused, "is rather splendid, though full of youthful literalism." Thoreau, she observed, is "a hero of the hippies, a dedicated dropout who was turned on by nature." Deftly summing up Hawthorne's stories as "tales of the dire results of invading the privacy of someone's secret heart," she added tartly that Hawthorne once confessed that he found Thoreau " 'tedious, tiresome...
...there is a chance. The Patriots last week cut former Notre Dame quarterback John Huarte, leaving the squad one man short of the 40-man limit. Coach Mike Holovak said yesterday that Leo "will definitely not suit up for this game" (Sunday against Houston), but he did not rule out next week. Meanwhile, he said, the Pats will play with one man less than the limit. Pro teams don't operate that way for too long...
...have proved to be the precursor of a new school of design that believes furniture ought to be, or at least look, invisible. Using vinyls and plastics, young American and European designers are now mass-producing chairs, sofas and tables that are low in cost, light in weight and suit almost any decor...