Word: artisticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Artist Jean Tinguely at the Museum of Modern Art demonstrates a machine that destroyed itself, a happening that introduces conceptual, nonbuyable...
Once aboard, Darwin proved immensely industrious. He climbed volcanoes and was shaken by earthquakes. He brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...
...another issue of the Advocate. That would be charming, almost quaint, if this latest effort were not so good. Romantic heroes they remain. And what better theme for them than their own romance? For, by design or not, almost every piece in the Advocate is really about the young artist confronting a bewildering "modernity" and trying to define it so that it does not exclude...
Miss Williams, returning for her fourth appearance at Harvard, incorporates genuine gospel singing with the diverse influences of jazz, calypso, and country and western. Described by Downbeat as "The most gifted and imaginative artist gospel has produced," Miss Williams generates an excitement that drew three standing ovations from an electrified Harvard audience last year...
...devious-looking character whispered in the cars of pedestrians waiting at crosswalks, selling what a placard said were "dynamite trips" at "a dollar a hit." and an enterprising artist with a scratch pad offered instant crayon masterpieces of Cambridge scenes at discount rates...