Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The party was successful when it could act with American writers on an issue like the Scottsboro case, or join intellectuals in picketing for Sacco and Vanzetti, but it displayed a great, lumbering ineptness whenever it interfered in strictly cultural and artistic matters. This ineptness that Aaron writes of, this...
Up from Architecture. Léger's artistic beginnings were in architecture; he was apprenticed at 16 to an architect in Caen, and he went on to serve in the office of another architect in Paris before he embarked on a painting career of his own. He passed through...
Noting that architecture brings together many of the artistic, scientific, and technological fields, Fuller remarked that "science paces technology, technology paces industry, industry paces economics, and economics paces politics. Quite clearly, then, political leaders are at the tall end of affairs. And for man to ask change of political leaders...
"I have created." says Conductor George Szell. "an instrument perfectly suited to express my artistic intentions." Szell's instrument is the 104-member Cleveland Orchestra, which he designed as a kind of hybrid-a cross-breeding of American precision and cleanliness of tone with European warmth and temperament. Satisfied...
Investigators of psilocybin at Harvard's Center for Research In Personality are unbounded in their enthusiasm for this new drug, reporting that it frequently increases powers of creative thinking in both artistic and scientific areas. A number of authors (Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and others) studied in the...