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...able to devote himself full time to his art. He read numerous scientific volumes and decided that Mondrian and Malevich had written fini to easel painting. "Pure physics suddenly revealed itself before my dazed eyes as the new poetic source," he recalls. By 1955, he had developed an alphabet -"planetary folklore," he calls it-composed of geometric forms and basic colors capable of infinite arrangements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Craftsman for Today, Dreamer for Tomorrow | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...tutored junior high school students. At night she would go by train to Philadelphia, where for two years she tutored two ghetto boys. Said Carol: "I remember how incredulous Diana was that a seventh-or eighth-grade child couldn't read, didn't even know the alphabet." A Princeton football player proposed marriage, but Diana said: "I don't want to get married now. There are too many things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protest: Memories of Diana | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...homes throughout the U.S. last week as, one by one, members of the Selective Service System's Youth Advisory Committee walked to the giant fishbowl and drew out small plastic capsules containing 366 dates. That drawing was followed by a second in which the 26 letters of the alphabet were picked to determine by the initial letter of their last names the order in which young men born on the dates already drawn would be drafted. If U.S. military manpower needs remain unchanged, the armed forces will have to draft about 250,000 men next year. Those whose birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...things can go no farther than Z: the alphabet and the ideological film. Traditionally, political movies tend to be newsreels with strident sound tracks or windy polemics pretending to be conversation. Scenarist Jorge Semprun (La Guerre Est Finie) knows better. So does Director Costa-Gavras (Sleeping Car Murder), who correctly calls Z an "adventure film" against a system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Echo Chambers of Horror | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Here is the "tie-breaking" order of call, in which the initial of each man's last name and first name if necessary will be matched with a scrambled alphabet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Magic Numbers | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

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