Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after years of careful planning, a group of Manhattan dealers and collectors announced that the void had been filled. Turning themselves into a board of trustees for a new Museum of Early American Folk Arts, they acquired and will soon occupy quarters on West 53rd Street, near the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In a dramatic sendoff, the new museum also opened a choice first exhibition in the Exhibit Center of the TIME & LIFE Building, two blocks away. If there was one fault with the show, it was this: it would...
...this was a constitutionally footless line of argument. The old states' rights doctrine that a state can interpose its authority so as to void a federal law within its own borders was struck down long ago -pragmatically by the Civil War and legally by decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1932 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, speaking for a unanimous court, declared it to be "manifest" that a state Governor could not invoke his powers to infringe anyone's rights under the Federal Constitution. In the Little Rock decision in 1958, the Supreme Court handed down...
Rothschild Collector. Stash Radziwill explained. No three-ring annulment was necessary, because his first marriage - to the present Baroness de Chollet, wife of a Swiss banker - was declared void by the Vatican shortly before he married Lee in March 1959; his second marriage was not even recognized by the church, since it was a civil ceremony, and. in any case, took place before his first was annulled...
...from sketches; he drew simply and directly with his brush, building his invariably harmonious compositions almost by instinct. He wasted no time on frills or dramatics; his presentation was straightforward, sometimes even stark. Yet his brush was so light and fluid that even when his subjects appear in a void, with nothing stirring about them, they themselves seem about to move or speak...
...Yale Divinity School, Missouri-born younger brother of Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr. 70, a theologian who sought to rewarm Christian symbols long chilled into cliches, who once observed: "In the West the most sensitive, if not yet most, men are living in a great religious void; their half-gods are gone and the gods have not yet arrived"; of a heart attack; in Greenfield, Mass...