Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of the crowds that wait to get in. Director James Johnson Sweeney of Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has never gotten along with his spiraling new building on upper Fifth Avenue. He took a dislike to the place the moment he first saw Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's plans, and though he seemed for a while to have made a kind of peace with it, he was never really satisfied. Last week the museum announced that Sweeney had quit...
...Guggenheim, which had been called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and which had a reputation for being not only too narrow but often second-rate. Sweeney seemed in his element in trying to build up the collection-until he collided with the towering figure of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...When Wright's building opened, some critics-and a good many artists-moaned that art had been sacrificed to architecture (TIME. Nov. 2). Sweeney made no secret of the fact that he agreed...
...Ward Moorehouse, born in Wilmington, Delaware, on the Glorious Fourth. He grows up to become J. Ward Moorehouse, public relations counsel, and U.S.A. surrounds his story with those of others who enter into his life, and with a variety of historical material: biographies of figures from the period--the Wright brothers, Eugene V. Debs, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Ford, the Unknown Soldier among others--songs, dances, newspaper headlines and stories, stream-of consciousness narrative of actual events...
CEREMONY IN LONE TREE, by Wright Morris (304 pp.; Atheneum; $4), is set in the barren Nebraska plains country, where the author stalks his favorite game -the "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners with souls imprisoned like "buzzing flies" in "God's cocoon." Morris has been compared variously to Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, even Mickey Spillane, but in this, his 13th book, he sounds more like a kind of slick-paper Nathanael West, without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled...