Word: willem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Gordon M. Smith, 72, foresighted director of Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 1955 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Buffalo. By boldly purchasing works by such contemporary painters as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Arshile Gorky before they were widely bought by larger, more affluent museums, Smith and the museum's angel, Woolworth Heir Seymour H. Knox, assembled a collection of abstract expressionist art that is virtually unsurpassed...
...State Department flatly refused to deny the charges, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said that "no apology" would be issued, as the South African Prime Minister had demanded. The following day, Willem Retief, South Africa's Charge d'Affaires, was summoned to the State Department and told that two of his mission's military attaches were being ordered to leave the U.S. within a week, in direct retaliation for the expulsion of three American defense attaches...
...laid down the basic principle of the laser some 40 years before the first such device was made but, more broadly, also advanced quantum theory. In addition, Einstein contributed significantly to the rebirth of cosmology, the study of the origin, history and shape of the universe. The Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter and later the Russian scientist Alexander Friedmann had concluded that Einstein's equations pointed to an unstable universe ?possibly an expanding one. Because such a changing, dynamic universe was totally at odds with the popular picture of the heavens portrayed by most astronomers, Einstein had opted...
...Writers Project recorded the lives of "ordinary" Americans. Not only did a galaxy of stars emerge from the Theatre Project, but similar galaxies emerged from other Projects as well--Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison from the Writers Project; Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning from the Art Project...
...lawyer, so we compromised on an occupation that supposedly combines professionalism with creativity-that of architect." An Australian, Hughes enrolled in the University of Sydney and, as he tells it, received training that "was totally useless for someone who really wanted to be a local parody of Willem de Kooning." Quitting the five-year program after four years, Hughes still retained a deep interest in the art he discusses in this week's cover story on American architecture...