Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camera-machine is as much the tool of an artist as a paintbrush. In a photograph, the artist can use his camera to produce as wide a range of effects as he could with different brush strokes on oil, tempera or water color. Like the painter, the photographer produces these results with varied techniques and the Fogg exhibit investigates them. Here we have a chance to see and compare the daguerreotype and the calotype, photogravure and gum-biochromate; platinum, palladium and cyanotype. I don't know the chemistry or history behind all these processes, but in this exhibit ignorance...
...usual in an emergency, they reacted with remarkable individuality. Floyd Wallace of Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren Savings Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat...
...problem does not lie in what we use but how we use it. A large sector of the U.S. population uses energy in unnecessary ways--to open their garage doors, cut their meat, brush their teeth. They believe they deserve any new machine which will conserve their own effort. Advertising emphasizes ease in the promotion of each new appliance...
...from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a master of many languages, an ex-prep schoolteacher and Yaleman. He is also an infernal meddler in other people's business, more or less in the spirit (much diminished) of Jesus, Socrates and George Brush, Wilder's insufferably virtuous hero in Heaven 's My Destination...
...brush of possible scandal has touched him only lightly and not very convincingly. After the 1970 campaign, Ford was accused of failing to report at least $11,500 in contributions made in 1969 by stockbrokers, bankers, conservative physicians and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Union of Kansas City, Kan. The checks were sent to Republican headquarters in Washington, which funneled the same amount back to two Ford reelection committees. But he defended his handling of his financial reports as "within the law," insisting that he did not know where the two committees received their money...