Word: whitneys
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Cornell's Grant Whitney placed first on the 3.1-mile course, and the entire competition came down to the finish of Harvard's third and fourth runners relative to those of Cornell...
...work is now nearly finished, and the result is a 793-mile stretch of natural gas pipeline that extends eastward from Whitney Canyon, Wyo., to a terminal in Beatrice, Neb. There the pipeline will become a part of existing gas lines leading to the population and industrial centers of the East, delivering 350 million cu. ft. of fuel per day to customers by Oct. 15. Named Trailblazer, because it is the first major pipeline to transport gas from the Rocky Mountain Overthrust Belt in western Wyoming directly to the Midwest, the $1.4 billion, 36-in. line is the work...
...Whitney, a retrospective that does not mask his limits...
...retrospective of some 150 Avery oils and watercolors, organized by Barbara Haskell to open the Whitney Museum's fall season, can show only a fraction of this output. But it is a delectable fragment. It will also provide plenty of fuel for reassessment. Nobody could call Avery a neglected painter, but he did work against neglected painter, but he did work against the grain. In the '30s and '40s his Matissean aesthetic and his refusal to paint "social" subjects, whether of the left, like Ben Shahn, or of the right, like Thomas Hart Benton, made...
...late Turner and late Cézanne, displaying "the kind of archetypal grandeur and sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure; the drawing punches large puritan holes...