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Currently 66 projects of well-known twentieth century architect Walter Gropius are on exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, representing several phases of his work. The museum holds extensive collections of Central and Northern European paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. The Busch-Reisinger, along with the Fogg and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, makes up the Harvard University Art Museums...
...museum's main drawing cards are its collections of Currier and Ives, ship portraiture, photography, and twentieth century technical art, Seaman's said...
Berenice Abbott: Vision of the Twentieth Century: MIT Museum Building, 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Weekdays: 9--5, Saturdays: 10--4, through...
Armed with a medical explanation for V.D., early twentieth century physicians were torn about how to deal with the infection. While the disease was erroneously thought to be communicable by non-sexual means as well as through intercourse, progressive reformers focused their attacks on foreign prostitutes in the cities and on immorality in all classes. Bachelor parties, once the site of last minute merry-making, became the object of criticism and fear and muckrakers took every opportunity to make the venereal problem "a subject of gossip...
...summary of Vietnamese history from the 1940s on, the sort of knowledge that is essential to understanding America's involvement. More than a war history, it is a sociological study of modern America and ideology, and how that ideology brought the United States to its greatest disaster in the twentieth century. Baritz does not discuss economic motives, except in passing, and this is perhaps Backfire's greatest lacking as a comprehensive explanation of why this country fought in Vietnam...