Smithsonian stories : chronicle of a golden age, 1964-1984 / Wilton S. Dillon ; with an introduction by Robert D. Sullivan.
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick (U.S.A.) :
Transaction Publishers,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: | xxxviii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Dedication
- Foreword / by Robert Sullivan
- Prologue / by Wilton S. Dillon
- Part One. Curtain time, stages, characters
- My Smithsonian beginning
- Man and beast : two inquiries, 1969 and 1986
- The cultural drama : identity and ferment
- Our simply sensational salon : the South Tower
- Savants and muses in the Castle
- Part Two. Enrichments
- Our French connection
- Variations on Indian and Chinese themes
- Space age on the ground
- Play and inventiveness
- New generations at the Smithsonian
- Part Three. Interactions
- Encountering the White House, Congress, and Judiciary
- Owls and falcons
- Imagining a museum of humankind
- Elizabeth Taylor and Mr. Smithson's ghost
- Linking Yves Klein and Marcel Mauss
- Part Four. Commemorations
- Celebrating Copernicus
- Whither "STEM" and the liberal arts
- Einstein redux
- Pax Americana : 1976
- Edinburgh 1984 : the enduring Scottish Enlightenment
- Acknowledgments and epilogue
- Appendices: [A] A harvest of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge
- [B] Major symposia and participants.