Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What form should a museum take in midcentury? There is the palace-a grand gallery with lofty, vaulted skylights. There is the closed box-an exhibition space sealed off from outside light and divided into cubicles where displays can be lighted with the calculated drama of a stage set. Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, whom fellow architects rank with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, accepts neither form. In Mies's view, a museum should be composed only of "three basic elements-a floor slab, columns and a roof plate...
...essence, Mies's concept goes back to the Japanese house, in which anonymous space can serve as living room, dining room or bedroom, depending on what furniture is brought forth. In the same way, Mies's museum area can be divided by partitions to take on the character of whatever is displayed within...
...column-free space beneath a 30-ft. ceiling. Opening to the north is a curving façade of grey-tinted glass which has become the main museum entrance. In such stark simplicity, the touches of elegance-Roman travertine on the entrance stairs and terrace, green Venetian terrazzo floors-take on a rich but restrained resonance...
...stodgy." ¶ Jingly, gutter-wise Threepenny Opera passed its 1,405th performance, became New York's third longest running musical, behind Oklahoma! (2,248) and South Pacific (1,925). Gross of the 229-seat Theater de Lys totals $1,250,000 -more than the combined take of the other top 18 off-Broadway shows for the past ten years...
...well dressed. Furthermore, the women knew more about the materials used in men's clothes -and 52% of the men admitted it. Wives, Du Pont noted, accompany their husbands on suit-buying expeditions about half the time, buy half the men's shirts without even bothering to take husbands along. Though low-income husbands were most jealous of their masculine rights, they submitted more to their wives' opinions than high-income husbands. Most important for Du Pont, it is the wives who are most receptive to synthetic fibers, such as Du Font's Dacron and Orion...