Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from here? In an ambitious effort to answer these questions, the American Federation of Arts this week opens a major exhibit in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Titled "Form Givers at Mid-Century," the show, sponsored and organized by TIME, will move on to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum in June, then tour the nation. Gallerygoers at the Corcoran will see models and photographs of 66 pivotal buildings, set off by panel-sized color transparencies, which provide a sampling of the best in 20th century architecture...
...decided to make a fight for its life. It needs $50,000--about one-fifth the cost of a single, big bad musical--to finish the remaining eight weeks of its season, and it must raise "a good chunk" this week in order to stay in existence. Like the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Center, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. It is forced to appeal for funds. Foundations and rich old ladies are being vigorously canvassed, but a huge amount of money will have to came from private (tax deductible) gifts...
Into Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium last week poured an impressive throng of 4,500 Anglicans and Episcopalians, including church dignitaries from eleven nations, to celebrate the centenary of their first mission in Japan.* The Buddhists had just been in the same hall to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's birth by posing such questions as "Does the accomplishment of sunya [nothingness] depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high...
Henry R. Shepley, in conjunction with Belluschi, helped plan New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which contains the new Metropolitan Opera House and the New York Philharmonic concert hall...
Detailed studies of opera houses throughout the world, prepared to aid in the design of Lincoln Center, have been made available to MeBAC by the Metropolitan Opera Association of New York, to help in the planning of the local opera house...