Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triggered by conventional explosives instead of "dirty" fission, there is much less blast or radioactive contamination-so that the bombarded area is left intact and friendly troops could occupy it. Furthermore, neutron weapons would be much lighter and cheaper than existing nuclear weapons, thus have enormous implications for brush-fire-war tactics...
...likeliest recruits, he adds, "are inclined to be sensibly clean people, not liberal and dirty people." Whatever they are, they all have things on their minds. Wisconsin's Roger Claus pumps for nuclear bomb testing: "We should stop this neurotic brooding, brush the fallout off our lapels and stand up to the Russians in the great heritage of this country." But at the University of Chicago, Conservative Roger Hamowy favors disarmament in the interests of "freedom," because then the Government would be forced to cut taxes...
...Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...
Gradually his primitivism disappeared, but no matter how mature his brush became or how rich his palette, his paintings never lost their Oriental lilt. His women were sensuous and thoroughly American, but they were nearly always by themselves, sad and impassive. What impressed him about the West was not its crops and bellowing herds, but sullen stillness before a prairie storm or an eerie milk train passing in the night. Kuniyoshi's America seemed to have neither skyscraper nor factory. It was a land where fantasy stretched from horizon to horizon and a child played mindlessly in the ruins...
Some of Klein's early paintings were all green, some all red, still others orange. But Klein's favorite color is I.K.B. (International Klein Blue), which has something to do with the space age. In Krefeld last week there were generous expanses of I.K.B., some "living brush" canvases, and a few paintings that looked as if they had been left out in the rain. They had. Klein produced The Wind of the Voyage by strapping a large I.K.B. canvas to the radiator of his car and driving through a storm. Says he: "It gives me a feeling that...