Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson Pollock, at 43 the bush-bearded heavyweight champion of abstract expressionism, shuffled into the ring at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery, and flexed his muscles for the crowd with a retrospective show covering 15 years of his career. The exhibition stretched back to the time when Pollock was imitating imitations of Picasso, reached a climax with the year 1948, when Pollock first conceived the idea of dripping and sloshing paint from buckets onto vast canvases laid flat on the floor. Once the canvases were hung upright, what gravity had accomplished came to look like the outpouring of Herculean...
...with virtually no knowledge of English. During his first year at Union he took English lessons twice a week from one of his students and wrote his lectures first in German. "The man really went through torture," Nicbuhr says. He recalls that since Tillich's theology is quite abstract, when one student complained that he couldn't understand Tillich's English lectures, another would reassure him: "That's all right. He can't be understood in German either...
...worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary artists, the best in our hemisphere-surely one of our century...
...Christian Science somehow lacks interest. The Advocate's fragments of Professor Whitman's translation of The Alcestis, with their alliteration and charming metre, seem very well done. Aside from this, however, this issue's poetry is unexciting. Paul Flanigan has written a "pretty" sonnet, expressing Keatsian sentiments with rather abstract words. There is also another of Andre Gregory's hoaxes. This one is about a sea-walnut. John Ratte's cover is, as usual, architectural...
...seeds of a Democratic Party split lie, Stevenson was cautious. What did he have to say about the fact that some Southern states have chosen to circumvent the Supreme Court's school-desegregation ruling? "I don't know that I can comment about that in the abstract. I think the Supreme Court's decision speaks for itself, and I believe that the law should be supported by all of the citizens of the country." When a reporter sought to ask him about the case of Emmett Till, the Negro boy who was murdered in Mississippi, Stevenson interrupted...