Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Million Styles. Smith like many contemporary artists shares the impatience to see the future, even in mockups, for he feels that the U.S. is on the verge of a major artistic breakthrough. So far, he points out, the forms that the U.S. has contributed to Western civilization have been largely architectural: skyscrapers, grain silos, factories, petroleum drums, bridges. But Egypt matched its pyramids and temples with obelisks and sphinxes, while Greece's Parthenon was glorified by the handiwork of Phidias. Michelangelo unified Florence's Piazza della Signoria with his 14-ft.-high David-which was positioned in front...
...dean of British nuclear physicists; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England. In 1932, Cockcroft and his research partner, E.T.S. Walton, were the first to release atomic energy by splitting the atom with proton "bullets" in a linear accelerator instead of using naturally radioactive particles, the previous technique. That breakthrough led to the development of the atom bomb anc won the partners the Nobel Prize fo Physics in 1951. By then, Sir John was director of the Harwell atomic research center, pointing Britain's nuclear capability toward peaceful applica tions, including her first nuclear-power station...
...tenants supported by the rent supplements, it represents tangible evidence for conservative Congressmen that business not only supports the program, but will also provide more than enough private financing to get it under way. Given the need, even $1 billion is not a large sum, but as a breakthrough in bringing private enterprise into an area it has traditionally shunned, it may have an importance beyond all accounting...
What makes Johnson particularly anxious to achieve some breakthrough is the fear that the G.O.P. will capitalize on slipping public support for his conduct of the war. In a speech to the Republican National Committee last week, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith charged that the Democrats are "bogged down and apparently incapable of either winning the war or bringing the fighting to an honorable conclusion." This week, before the American Mining Conference in Denver, House G.O.P. Caucus Chairman Melvin Laird planned to announce that Republicans are now "breaking" with Johnson on the war, though in general they have...
...superseded other subject matter. Since Laurens never used models, he was free to invent: an arm became a jai alai basket, limbs were omitted or dramatically extended. If his early cubist works were all angles, taut as strings, his later ones had the liquid rhythm of the sea. That breakthrough came in 1931, when Laurens visited the Mediterranean seacoast. From then on, his sculpture looked as if it had been tumbled in a million waves rather than shaped by a single incisive hand. Yet, though he abandoned cubism's forms, he continued to use its symbol, a guitar...