Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beneath the mutual sneering across the generational gap, which is all part of the fun, is there anything more to the petulant plaint of the younger generation? Why is it so difficult to open up and trust somebody "over thirty"? What happens to people when they get to be thirty, anyway...
...exhibition. It begins with landmark works of Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Mondriaan, Moore, Maillol and just about every famous name from the first half of the 20th century. But Rockefeller's tastes have not stagnated or calcified. Particularly in sculpture, he has cheerfully moved on to buy many younger minimal artists. Among his newest purchases are the 11½-ft.-tall white Granny's Knot of The Netherlands' Shinkichi Tajiri and Clement Meadmore's upswinging 14-ft. U Turn...
Carrying On. As far as the younger members of the staff were concerned, Lowry's ten months in office had been most salutary. He had reorganized the staff and started a Wednesday meeting session at which heads of departments could hash out their problems. He had promoted an ambitious acquisition program, whose most notable purchase was 47 paintings from the Gertrude Stein collection for $6,500,000. He had hired enterprising young associate curators to put the maturing Modern in touch once again with the artistic underground. Most of the staff thought it a shame that Lowry...
...trustees promised that the venturesome building and exhibition program on which Lowry had embarked would be carried on, and the younger curators could only hope that they meant it. It would be unfortunate indeed to have the nation's first and finest museum of contemporary enterprise become what some restless hippies branded it in jest shortly before Lowry took over: the mausoleum of modern...
...paramour, she was once thrown out of a bordello "for being a low influence on the inmates." Money was a more reliable consolation. Apparently, most famous gunfighters, no matter which side of the law they were on, would do almost anything to get it. The James boys and the Younger brothers knocked over banks and trains; the Earps and the Hickoks put the squeeze on local entrepreneurs...