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...Pravda editorial denounced the official Academy of Architecture for "slavishly toadying to the rotten bourgeois ideology." It appeared that architects had made the mistake of designing buildings that looked nonCommunist. Pravda struck equally hard at the architects who went in for many-columned neo-classical facades (like those in Washington, D.C.), and the functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead...
...centuries after his birth, David's place in art history was finally assured. He had lived through an age when history marched with a heavy and decisive tread, and he had stamped it with the mark of his genius and his will. His austere neo-classicism helped set the tone, and even the fashions of the First Republic and later of Napoleon's Empire...
Harvard's $2,500,000 new Lament Library, now under construction, is a compromise-a kind of midway modern, which is streamlined enough to shock Cantabrigian purists (though the Harvard Yard is already a pleasant grabbag of Georgian, Greek Revival, Victorian and nondescript). Princeton, with its huge neo-Gothic halls already built, had, like Miami, gone all out for uniformity, but in the opposite direction. Its new $6,000,000 library was carefully designed to "fit in" on the campus...
Better Than Berlin. The Olympics had opened with the kind of easy pomp which the British are so good at, with none of the neo-pagan vulgarism which characterized the 1936 Berlin Olympiad. King and commoner alike sweated in an un-English 93° heat as more than 5,000 athletes from 58 nations (among the largest: the 341-man U.S. squad) marched around the field. Exactly on schedule, at 4:07 p.m., a runner entered Wembley Stadium, bearing the "permanent flame" from Greece. He was anchor man on a human chain which had relayed the torch from a British...
...modest booth at the fair held 29 of Picasso's proudest plates, painted with abstract and neo-classical motifs. Franchise's face-happy, sad or angry-his baby's smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also...