Word: catalystic
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...Gogh's age when he committed suicide) Mondrian had almost paralleled Van Gogh's artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose...
...fund has experimented with putting master teachers on TV for the benefit of a whole school system. It has persuaded some colleges to take in bright high-school students before graduation and to give others advance standing after high-school graduation. It has also been a major catalyst in beefing up the standards of the public-school curriculum...
...answer to a prayer she had made the day before: she felt that she was too joyous and too fortunate, and asked to be allowed a sacrifice to give her love of God a deeper meaning. The source of both Cornelia's joy and piety, and the corrosive catalyst of the remainder of her turbulent life, was her husband Pierce Connelly, a charming, hypnotically persuasive ecclesiastical eclectic...
...both. By persuading Arkansans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and lure in new industry, Rockefeller and the industrial commission he heads are working an economic revolution in the Razorback State. In the doing, the one-time playboy has found a cause-and a home. See BUSINESS, Arkansas Catalyst...
...contribution. Then he and the panel took to the hills to convince the money-pinched people of Arkansas that they had a vital stake in the commission's future. Spurred on by their enthusiasm, Arkansans contributed $200,000. Says Rockefeller: "This is part of being a catalyst. That's how I see my role in Arkansas...