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...much as it may outrage Pop, not to mention Grandpop, is the biggest fad since art belonged to Dada. Symposiums discuss it; art magazines debate it; galleries compete for it. Collectors, uncertain of their own taste, find pop art paintings ideal for their chalk-walled, low-ceilinged, $125,000 co-op apartments in new buildings on Park Avenue. Even Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has bought a pop art sculpture called Dual Hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pop Art - Cult of the Commonplace | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...those schöne jahren (beautiful years), brilliant minds and crackling chalk-talks lured young scholars like Werner Heisenberg. a future Nobelman who wandered about in lederhosen, and Italy's Enrico Fermi, future U.S. father of the Abomb. U.S. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, winner last week of the AEC's Fermi Award (see PEOPLE), got his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1927. Another Göttingen recruit: Hungary's Edward Teller, future U.S. father of the H-bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Rebirth at Gottingen | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...shooting and rebounding of junior Les Hunter, the Ramblers grabbed an early 22-6 margin and coasted until late in the game. But Duke battled back, closing the gap to 74-71 with 4:20 left, and it looked as if the Blue Devils might be able to chalk up their 21st straight...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: Cincinnati, Loyola Meet For Basketball Crown | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

...West Berlin seemed almost carefree. Bundled in overcoats, citizens jammed the outdoor cafes for hot coffee and rich pastry, while their feet froze and their necks blistered from the heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Wall of Trees | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...large whitewashed studio in the London borough of Hammersmith works a wild-haired, chalk-faced old man who wryly likes to compare himself to the Prophet Elijah. "You have to pay for working alone for 40 years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elijah of Hammersmith | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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