Word: circularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather, it would seem that human affairs should be approached in a circular manner, beginning with the incorporation of a total viewpoint. Once one has a conception, however vague it may be, of the whole field of play one can then proceed to ferret out the truths that it contains--much as a quarterback might spend some time sizing up the opposing team before he starts mapping his own strategies, instead of launching into all his tricks straightaway in the hope that he will learn by trial and error...
...three-man moon crew had been aboard, they would still have been safe enough. The makeshift maneuvers successfully inserted the third stage and the unmanned Apollo 6 spacecraft into a 218-mile by 113-mile elliptical orbit (instead of the planned 115-mile circular orbit). But there was more trouble to come...
Some of the more satisfying of this season's offerings in Manhattan's smaller theaters: Ergo, a wacky expressionist exercise by Austrian Writer Jakov Lind; In Circles, an aptly named circular play by Gertrude Stein set to circular music by Al Carmines; Iphigenia in Aulis, a Euripedean antiwar drama that has lost little of its force through the centuries; The Indian Wants The Bronx, Israel Horovitz's study of the savagery that can lurk on any street; Your Own Thing, a marvelously modern, inventive and sophisticated rock version of Twelfth Night...
ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel Vault New museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned for Washington, D.C., which rivals Hadrian's Tomb in scale. One museum in the process of being formed has decided on a different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn...
...Communist circular dated Oct. 3 specified that the general offensive should emphasize "attacks on enemy key units, cities and towns, lines of communication." Another, noting that the U.S. "has proved weak and passive during recent battles at Dak To and Loc Ninh," goes so far overboard in its confidence that it says the Viet Cong revolution will succeed by mid-1968 and that civilians should be advised to expect their Viet Cong and North Vietnamese family members at war to be home around...