Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collectors of the Class of 1936 are standouts. The superb acquisitions of men like Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., David Rockefeller and Gordon Palmer, have the scope and excellence of first-rate museum pieces. These conoisseurs have bought wisely, but much more importantly, they have bought with a flair. The safe, the everyday, has little interest for them. They are out for the most important and the most impressive paintings they can find. Today, when art collection has become so widespread a form of investment, the private collector is generally notable for his caution, his collections for their dullness. But many members...
...sometimes seems as if the most valuable characteristic a museum man can have is an insistent, resourceful, patient diplomatic, dedicated pigheadedness. Last week, when Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed its latest acquisition to the public-a superb, 800-year-old limestone apse that had been brought from Spain to be reconstructed at the Met's medieval offshoot, The Cloisters-it ended a task of determined negotiation that began back in 1935. The Spanish ambassador and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller were on hand to say a few glowing words, but neither even mentioned...
DRAMA. The Pulitzer-Prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, which might also be titled Young Dr. Freud; and A Taste of Honey, a gentle treatment of some bitter episodes, are the only survivors. All are worthwhile, plus, of course, last season's Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast, for anyone who has not yet seen...
Breaking the Dishes? Four years ago-after a nearly ten-year command-LeMay left SAC, moved into the Pentagon as Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. There was a lot of conjecture about the move. LeMay, it was agreed, was a superb field commander. But within the confines of the Pentagon, he would surely break up a lot of policy dishes...
...private triumph-the work of three rich, generous New Yorkers who never saw the final result. In 1848 immigrant Fur Tycoon John Jacob Astor left $400,000 to start the Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public Library...