Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's most controversial building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, last week opened its spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...
...joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused him deliberately to subordinate the hangings to the walls...
Barnes was born in New York City about forty years ago and attended St. Paul's School before entering Yale in the Class of 1940 (the same class as McGeorge Bundy). He majored in Government and found time in his hectic extra-curricular career to write a thesis on Development of Public Policy that was judged the best in the department...
...York Congressman who introduced a bill to repeal the loyalty provisions of the National Defense Education Act said yesterday that he intends to "push it as hard as I can" in he next session of Congress...
...more books in the series will appear this month. The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin, professor of History, deals with the history of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in the New York area. Also to be published is Made in New York, by Roy B. Helfgott, James M. Hund, and W. Eric Gustafson, instructor in Economics...