Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work. "One has to go back to Rodin and beyond that to Michelangelo to be able to match this experience," raved one Rotterdam critic. Dutch Sculptor Leo Braat said, "This work is anything but a play of forms; it is an act of faith, a revelation.". In Basel, Switzerland, where the exhibition opened last month, critics greeted Lipchitz as "the greatest cubist among sculptors." Ahead for the show lie Munich, Dortmund, Brussels, Rome, Paris, London...
...white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain and the second in or near Europe (the other is in Bern, Switzerland). The new temple was opened to the public for 17 days, but after its dedication this week, only Mormons may enter who have been "recommended for participation in the various ceremonies" and bear certificates from their local churches that they are "morally clean, have paid their tithes, sustain the word...
...brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart. In 1950 Candela made his-mark by designing (with Architect Jorge González Reyna) a concrete shell for Mexico's University City Cosmic Ray Pavilion so precisely engineered that its minimum thickness where it had to carry little weight was cut to a mere five...
...them for prestige value alone. General Foods this year will add seven new luxuries, including bouillabaisse ($1.10), spiced Cherry Heering preserves ($1.25), Smithfield ham and cheese paté (70?), babas au rhum ($1.10). Nestlé will now have a big finger in the luxury pie, recently signed to sell Switzerland's famed Hero line of preserves...
...suspicious of all outsiders, and frequently warned travelers leaving for England to beware of "the fatal British aristocratic embrace." He went abroad only twice, once to attend a Commonwealth conference in London, and another time, when he whipped through England, Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Switzerland, and Italy, and reported back home a month later that the scenery was nice but "some people were unfriendly...