Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Courted ardently for his collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...
...Walt Wright broad jumped 22 ft., 6 3/4 in against Princeton last week, and that's far enough to give Aggrey Awori and Harvey Thomas a real battle tomorrow...
...Wright will also test Harvard's triple jump duo of Thomas and Olufemi Olunloyo. The Crimson pair, unimpressive in the Greater Boston championships, may have to top 45 ft. to beat out Wright...
...consistent with his double role of patriot and international intellectual. He defined his book The Beloved Land as "a story of one man's destiny seen against the background of the history of his family and of his country." In his life and work, Dedijer has displayed what C. Wright Mills called "the sociological imagination"--a quality of mind which dramatically links individual and social reality. Born in a land of many cultures and ideologies, he combines within himself a series of paradoxical styles of life. Faced with pressures which would have torn most men apart, Dedijer played his roles...
Venice is the greatest of museum cities, and it guards its monuments jealously. In fact, the city has largely resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...