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Windowed Nook. Curator Rousseau, who believes that "a museum should be essentially a theater where a visitor can find delight and entertainment," had done everything possible to make the galleries a refreshing place in which to wander and look. In the larger galleries, unobtrusive labels over each painting gave the name of the artist, so that it was no longer necessary to squint closely at a picture to see who did it. Conveniently placed in the chronological order of the galleries was a windowed nook. There gallerygoers may rest on comfortable couches, smoke and contemplate either Central Park...
This unique auditorium consists mainly of several hundreds of tons of concrete roof in the shape of a spherical triangle, "floating" on three ball and socket type joints that allow it to wander a little when expanding or contracting. The diminutive walls have to be kept clear of the moving, self-supporting roof. Now swaddled in canvas and scaffolding, the structure looks non-descript in the extreme. But, undaunted by its present mud-pie look, R. M. Kimball, chairman of the building committee, expects "wonderful things" from the auditorium...
Sometimes he would pose as a student or an alumnus. Sometimes he would be a writer on "college affairs," or a typewriter salesman. However he introduced himself, deans and janitors believed him. let him wander about the dormitories at will. But in five years, Carroll never wrote a single word or sold a single typewriter. "Instead," says he, "I stole them...
...mythology of India, the Himalaya is the home of the gods. Shiva and Vishnu wander through the everlasting snows on the ridge of the world. Thus, when European expeditions trail off into the mountains of Nepal, Buddhist peasants assume that the strangers are going to look for heaven. Last week the film record of the two latest Himalayan expeditions, put on public view, showed heaven and hell interfused in some of the most terrifyingly beautiful pictures ever to move across a screen...
...three can only wait. Struik sums up their position, "How is it possible," he asks, "that a government can accuse a man of trying to overthrow it by force, and then let him freely wander the streets for two years...