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EXHIBITIONS 7 Millenniums Under One Roof "The last 6,000 years of human history are most interesting," Alfred North Whitehead once remarked to a dinner companion. If the philosopher could have attended the current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., he would have had to increase his span by a millennium. The Archaeological Museum of Teheran and a major private Iranian collection have been spilled open to provide the U.S. with a show of 735 objects, many of them only recently discovered, from 7,000 years of Persian...
JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Fifty of Arshile Gorky's drawings span his career. Through June 30. An archaeological exhibition of 200 sculptures and artifacts goes back to the sixth millennium B.C. Through Sept...
...Nikita Khrushchev peered across the Great Kremlin Hall and spied the millennium. "In the immediate future," he declared to the Supreme Soviet, "we shall reach the production and consumption level of the United States, the wealthiest country of the capitalist world. Then we shall enter the open sea in which no comparisons with capitalism will anchor...
IRANIAN CERAMICS-Asia House, 112 East 64th. More than 100 pieces of Persian pottery and porcelain, dating from the 4th millennium B.C. into the 19th century A.D. Through...
...support of the American people for your daily deliberations." Referring to the nuclear test ban treaty, he declared: "Today we may have reached a pause in the cold war - but that is not a lasting peace. A test ban treaty is a milestone - but it is not the millennium ... If we can stretch this pause into a period of cooperation, then surely this first, small step can be the start of a long and fruitful journey...