Word: manhattanization
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...addition to a match against Rutgers on Thursday, Harvard hosts Brown, Dartmouth, Manhattan, UNH and Vermont in the Harvard Invitational on November...
...world's leaders assemble in New York City this week to celebrate the U.N.'s formal 50th birthday, the occasion augurs more than traffic gridlock unlike any that Manhattan has ever seen. Outside of the champagne parties at Turtle Bay, site of the U.N. headquarters, the anniversary stands to produce a feast of cynicism about the visions of 1945. From this angle, the organization's ambitions look overblown and its bureaucratic arthritis embarrassing. As fashion statement, the U.N. is growing scandalously demode...
...Surrealists--whose work he cordially detested--Mondrian had fled to refuge in New York in 1940 as the Nazi threat to "degenerate artists" such as himself became inescapably plain. The mere arrival of this diffident and somewhat reclusive man symbolized the passing of modernist leadership from Paris to Manhattan. Yet unlike the Surrealists, he had few American followers, and none who became painters of the first rank. Part of the paradox of Mondrian was that although he believed passionately in the "universal" character of his art, it could not be successfully imitated. But it was vulgarized on a million grid...
TIPTOEING PAST THE DANK AND murk of the Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen, you walk into a huge tent where Pomp Duck and Circumstance is performed and enter a different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...
British nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he helped found jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Rotblat, who resigned from the Manhattan Project before it developed the first atom bomb, started the Pugwash Conference to work toward the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Pugwash takes its name from the Nova Scotia fishing village where it was founded...