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Folklorist Alan Lomax's Trove Goes to Library
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 24, 2004; Page C01
The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.
"I think it's the jewel in the crown of the collections here," says Peggy A. Bulger, director of the folklife center, "because it spans 70 years. It's almost an entire century of documentation by one person who was an incredible collector and who had an ear for excellence."
The Lomax collection, she says, offers a vast sampler of "the very best music, dance and stories from 1930s to present day." The library expects scholars to benefit from it for eons to come.
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"But Zaha Hadid is also an awful choice for the Pritzker. She is well known for her inability to translate her ideas into realistic projects, let alone finished buildings--of which she has a mere six to her name. And her recognition comes at a time when a host of more deserving architects stand in the wings for the award--architects who have built far more but are far less beloved by the avant-garde. Her selection, no doubt influenced by her distinction as the most prominent woman in a field dominated by men, represents a fatal debasement of an award purportedly about rewarding excellence, not political correctness or trendiness. Worst of all, it threatens to further widen the rift between ideas and practice that is slowly undermining architecture's ability to contribute to society."
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Turrell likens the spare interior to Plato's cave, in which ''we realize that we perceive the outside reality incompletely. We think we are seeing the whole, but in fact we are only seeing part. We think we exist independently of nature, but we are very interrelated. We even influence the colors that we see.''