Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absent Platform. Ferber's earlier work retained one convention: each piece, imprisoned by gravity, had to rest on an obvious base. In his Spheroid II, Ferber tried to eliminate the platform. The sculpture has the suggestion of an outer surface; but inside, everything is movement, with each form challenging every other. Taken literally, the sculpture does have a top and bottom, but esthetically it does not. Since it is in constant motion, its base is gone...
Despite a slightly slow start, the first movement did not drag under Swoboda's baton, and the orchestra produced sounds with shapes totally absent in the performance of the Beethoven. The orchestra had a few problems: the strings sounded a little thin and scattered in the extreme upper register during the fourth movement, while the low woodwinds occasionally picked the wrong notes. But Swoboda and the orchestra did capture the excitement and variety of the larger forms within each movement, and the Brahms, which ended the program, mitigated the effects of the Beethoven...
...last week the House sat silently while a young Republican bitterly denounced a Democratic committee chairman-and, in the process, scolded the House itself. The victim of the attack was Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chairman of the Education and Labor Committee (as usual, Powell was absent at the time). The attacker: second-termer John Milan Ashbrook, 34, attorney, Johnstown, Ohio, newspaper publisher and former national chairman of the Young Republican National Federation...
...Flubber. In The Absent Minded Professor, Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber-and then put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
...Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...