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...reinstatement of professional theater at Annenberg Center...
...article about the hockey team's prospects, written just before the Pennsylvania administration announced the termination of the varsity program at the university, compounded the bitterness and disappointment of team members and supporters. The elimination of hockey, along with the announced cancellation of professional theater at the Annenberg Center, formed the emotional basis for what developed into a monumental four-day sit-in at the Philadelphia campus...
Walter H. Annenberg, LL.D., publisher and former Ambassador to Great Britain...
...activity away from the display and study of original works of art toward mass reproduction and film. The "semiautonomous" status of the center, housed in the museum but not under its administrative control, created misgivings; and not everyone felt happy about the idea of a vast personal monument to Annenberg. But the official obstacle was the center's use of public land. Due to restrictions on the Met's expansion into Central Park, the Annenberg Center could only be housed in the museum by using up space-which Hoving had previously announced to be "essential" for exhibitions-inside...
...this problem, and on that basis New York Parks Administrator August Heckscher in 1971 approved the building plan for the expansion on Central Park land. Now it turned out that three-quarters of the southwest wing would not be used to display works of art at all; occupied by Annenberg's project, it would be closed to the public-a backstage shuffle that Hoving managed to keep secret almost to the last moment...