Word: ultramodernism
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...premiere was 25 years late. In West Berlin's ultramodern Conservatory Concert Hall one night last week, a large crowd gathered for the first performance of Piano Concerto No. 4, written by Russia's late great Sergei Prokofiev in 1931. At the keyboard was East Berlin's Pianist Siegfried Rapp, impeccable in white tie and tails. There was only one odd thing about the soloist: his right sleeve was empty and pinned to his coat...
...stone's throw from its "collegiate Gothic" Green Hall, Wellesley College will put up two ultramodern buildings containing a 350-seat combined theater, lecture and recital hall and a gallery for art exhibitions. The gift of Spokane Lumber Tycoon George Frederick Jewett and his wife (Wellesley '23 and a trustee of the college) and their son and daughter, the buildings will form the Jewett Art, Music and Theater Center. Said President Margaret Clapp of the gift: "Aware of the challenge which automation will present to the good use of leisure time, and aware that women educated through...
...Association began its scheme to overwhelm Harvard three years ago with its decision to replace the traditionally fragile wooden goalposts with ultramodern (and indestructible) steel ones. Finding that students remained docile in spite of this insidious innovation, the haamonsters handed down an even more radical dictum--NO ALCOHOL IN THE STANDS. This, in itself, was enough to drive droves away from the Stadium, but a tenacious few (who had flasks) grimly went on getting tickets...
...Byers Peak Ranch (altitude: 8,600 ft.), Ike found that some changes had been made since his last visit. Near the rustic cabin where the President had roughed it in previous years, Host Nielsen had built a comfortable new prefabricated rambler with an ultramodern electric kitchen calculated to delight an old K.P. like Ike. St. Louis Creek had been deepened in spots for better fishing, and freshly stocked with trout, and a new, one-acre pond near the house was leaping with 412 hungry rainbow trout which Nielsen had thoughtfully dumped in a week before at a cost...
...into apartments for families. "If uranium proves to be a long-range proposition," said one of Elliot Lake's planners, "we see no reason why this town shouldn't grow to 20,000." For Pronto's executive and professional staff Hirshhorn put up a community of ultramodern ranch houses along the shore of Lake Lauzon...