Word: multi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GREAT part of modern life is lived by artificial light, and yet no major painter has devoted himself to this glittering and multi-hued area until now. This week Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take...
...first step toward construction of the new Health Center--destruction of the Employees' Clinic and the parking lot next to it--will start on Jan. 1. The clinic will be levelled in preparation for groundbreaking next Spring of the multi-million dollar structure...
...dedication ceremony for Brandeis University's multi-million dollar Goldfarb Library will feature an address by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. MacLeish and Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College, Emeritus, will receive honorary degrees during the Nov, 28 ceremony...
...addition, Exeter faced two peculiar obstacles, which are perhaps limited to the small group of schools and colleges which enjoy the kind of success Exeter has attained. When a school has 1500 applicants for 250 places, and an educational formula based on multi-million dollar gifts (from the same Edward Harkness who gave Harvard's houses and Yale's colleges), it seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really...
...other major activity was the seminar program on trade and political interests, held in every building offering multi-lingual translation facilities. Since the Communists had for the first time come from behind the Iron Curtain to stage a Festival, it is surprising that they would spoil the effect so badly by repressive techniques in these meetings. Some, such as the seminar on underveloped countries, traced a pre-planned picture with heavy-handed accuracy wavering only when the shouting down of contrary viewpoints neared violence...