Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steichen makes one of his main points quickly: a picture sequence can often add up to much more than the sum of its component pictures. In support, he offers a nine-shot panel of a country doctor making his rounds, seven stages in the teaching of a deaf child, four stages in a marine's homecoming (the Steichen caption: "Boy and girl-and a visual love song"). But many pictures suggest their subject in a single, self-contained flash: a Nebraska wheatfield canopied with monumental clouds; dead G.I.s on Buna Beach; Evita Perón getting her last primps...
...Museum of Modern Art has bound all of Steichen's choices in a LiFE-size catalogue, on sale at the museum for $1, and has let Steichen sum it up thus: "An historical procession where wisdom and nonsense, the ornery and the holy, the poisons of hate and the selflessness of heroism are all written into the visual record of the world we live...
...University received slightly under $2,000,000 in gifts during last summer, it was announced yesterday. The exact sum, $1,762,000, was over $1,000,00 under the donations during the same period in 1950. But more significant was the lack of large gifts from individuals and the dependence on foundations...
...Medical and Public Health Schools were largest recipients with a combined total of $706,000. Of the $231,000 given to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest sum went for scientific research...
...this year, the H.A.A. will pay all costs for opening up the Stadium and paying groundskeepers on a holiday. This sum usually amounts...