Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking to translate this symbolic imagery into clearer, simpler compositions, Smith developed his "line drawing" sculptures, made from strips of steel welded together into flat, picture-like compositions. His masterpiece in this genre is Australia (1951), a 9-ft.-wide, predatory sort of flying queen ant that stands on a pedestal, as much signpost as symbol. Australia occupies a niche of its own at the Guggenheim, for it marks the end of Smith's apprenticeship to foreign styles and his emergence as an innovator with followers of his own. Thereafter, his works became increasingly abstract, although to the last...
...ability of black and yellow people to master war, finance, science and technology are waning rapidly in both white and black minds. The impression of standardized testing is now clear to most literate people and the criminal use to which they are put in schools is also becoming clearer...
...example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds for the committee lest they be called unpatriotic. Drop the scare word and the spell breaks." But opponents of the bill feared that a new name would make HUAC more respectable. As the real aims of the bill became clearer, they fought to save the scare word...
...Nina Simone is saying 'em louder and clearer than ever before. There was a time when her stance was an indifferent slump, her expression unsmiling, her attitude hostile. At best, she was called temperamental, at worst arrogant. She went through one distraught manager after another. But since her 1961 marriage to Andrew Stroud, who quit the New York City police force to become her manager, she has calmed down-and even found a measure of tranquility...
Hoping to give investors a clearer view of conglomerates, the Securities and Exchange Commission is about to issue a tough new regulation requiring all multi-industry companies to disclose how each segment of their business is faring...