Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given such a massive body of work, a major problem in staging a retrospective was to find a museum that could adequately display it. Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum turns out to be just the place, with its soaring inner space and gigantic spiral ramp designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A few large, most strongly vertical works look slightly lopsided because of the ramp's slope. But by and large the Guggenheim's arbitrary architecture admirably enhances the drama of Smith's career...
...last turn on the ramp at the Guggenheim, lined with proud "Zigs" and sprightly "Arcs," Wright's giant skylights loom close above the sculpture, filtering wan daylight through and crushing the mighty works down to an almost puny human scale. But if the ambience seems bleak, it is also strangely appropriate, for Smith's last works were conceived and built in desolation. His second wife had left him in the isolated mountain house, taking with her their two daughters. Visitors, though they revelled in the gourmet meals that the sculptor cooked and joined in the monumental drinking bouts...
...only outright progressive among the new cardinals, Detroit's John F. Dearden, has encouraged widespread lay participation in the internal affairs of his big archdiocese, and has been remarkably successful as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Pittsburgh's Bishop John J. Wright, one of the most articulate theologians in the U.S. hierarchy, played a significant role in shaping several documents of Vatican II. He will return to Rome to an as yet unannounced post in the Curia...
...afternoon, they could have encountered several of the reasons why. A group of artists and writers who meet there have for years been assiduously importing and translating Western books, plays and art publications. One of their leaders is slender, Jiři Kolář, now 54, essayist, play wright and, by general acknowledgment, Czechoslovakia's leading poet...
Krister Stendahl, dean of the faculty of the Divinity School, and Edward Wright Jr., acting dean of students, refused to comment on the proposal until Hornberger submits it. Both said the matter was too serious to discuss until they had studied copies of the statement...