Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painter, Gérard de Lairesse) and drawings, the collection includes bronzes, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and furniture from the 12th to the 20th century. Said Museum Director Thomas Hoving to the 400 guests at the lavish party in honor of the Met's benefactors: "The sad thing is that Robert Lehman himself is not here to announce the news of this extraordinarily munificent gift...
...They had no organization. They had no curriculum. Completely the opposite of the typical college experience in which you are presented, on arriving, with a series of established slots, and told to decide which one you will wedge yourself into for the next four years. Here the only thing on the agenda for ten days was a lot of encounter sessions...
...courts this way: "The word always filtered down that the Old Man wanted such and such to happen. And, miracle of miracles, it always did." Within this system, a career officer assigned as defense counsel often helps the miracle along by pleading his client guilty. "There is no such thing as a truly vigorous attempt to defend your client in the military," complains a military lawyer in California, "except for those few willing to be branded as renegades...
...called Abbey Road, in honor of the group's favorite studios in London. The disk proves lucky indeed -for listeners who like being disarmed by the world's four most fortunate and famous music makers. Melodic, inventive, crammed with musical delights, Abbey Road is the best thing the Beatles have done since Sgt. Pepper (1967). Whereas that historic record stretched the ear and challenged the mind and imagination, Abbey Road is a return to the modest, pie-Pepper style of Rubber Soul and Revolver. It has a cheerful coherence-each song's mood fits comfortably with every...
...more than a morning to the multiple study that now hangs at the Brussels Royal Musum of Fine Arts. This portrait bulges with brilliance, makes room for itself; yet it is not monumental in feeling but intimate. Rubens spins his subject swiftly, eagerly, to see and show the same thing from four view points all at once. Who was the model? No one knows his name. Rubens presumably painted him for fun, for love of that gallant bronze head that seems to bear the fingerprints of God upon its temples. It is a speaking head, al though silent. And optimistic...