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1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dillon, Wilton S., 1923-
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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001.
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Dillon, Wilton S., 1923- fast |
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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001 fast |
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Smithsonian Institution -- History -- 20th century
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Smithsonian Institution -- Officials and employees -- Biography
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Smithsonian Institution fast |
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Smithsonian Institution gnd |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
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REFERENCE -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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Employees
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collective biographies.
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Festschriften
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Biographies
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History
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Festschriften.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781412854542 |
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1412854547 |
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