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Max Abramovitz, the architect for Lincoln Center's first constituent, has presided over a pleasing and very successful mingling of art and science. He began the evolution of Philharmonic Hall in 1957 and proceeded through almost a hundred designs in over a thousand renditions, before the final plan was established...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Lincoln Center | 10/6/1962 | See Source »

An amateur architect as well as a semipro statesman, Indonesia's President Sukarno often seems bored by the problems of building up his country's economy and feeding its population. Building up the skyline is much more pleasing, and it costs about the same. Last week Sukarno was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: The Master Builder | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

EXPERTISE. "Among the really expert, all organizations are instantly judged by the looks of their female office staff. Vice President A, who cannot find an attractive girl for his outer office, is most unlikely to have found anything else." There is also the Parkinsey Report: "Before joining a company as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Parkinson's Third Law | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

Two selections from the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams opened the program. With Miss Jacqueline Goodspeed as soprano soloist, the Chorus performed Williams' "O Taste and See," a setting of Verse 8 of the 34th Psalm. The general effect was pleasing; and even better things were soon to come. Regardless...

Author: By Frederic Ballard, | Title: Summer Chorus | 8/20/1962 | See Source »

Eggs with Hens Inside. He produced everything from an image of Buddha in nephrite (a form of jade) for the King of Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Just to Look At | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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