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...definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean Arp for a forthcoming retrospective, the museum found that Arp abstractions painted with oil on canvas can enter duty free, but an Arp collage (made of pasted doilies, tapestry and cloth) is dutiable. Arp's abstract marble, Configurations of Serpent Movements, was cleared because its title suggests it was modeled on "imitations of natural objects," whereas Arp's equally abstract Dream Amphora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Isn't Art? | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Such as experiments indicating that the bactericidal property of silver, from which most chalices are made, plus the practice of turning the cup between communicants and wiping its drinking edge with a clean cloth (called a "purificator"), make the common Communion cup "not an important vector of infectious disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Storm in a Cup | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Sweeping its office floors with a specially treated, dust-gathering cloth to save $1,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Voice with a Smile | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...group of 40 students, mostly from the Divinity School, are wearing blue cloth armbands as a sign of their protest against this country's nuclear weapons tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Group Wears Armbands As Protest Against Bomb Tests | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...public lectures, Copey's small size made him self-con-scious about reading or speaking standing up. A letter in a recent Alumni Bulletin describes his in sistence on a table and chair that would fit "a boy five feet, five and one-half inches tall" and a cloth long enough to hide his legs. Once these details were disposed of, Copey's classroom manner was awe-inspiring. George Santayana wrote, "Copeland was an artist rather than a scholar; he was a public reader by profession, an elocutionist." A green bookbag and a glass of water always attended him. Cross...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Charles Townsend Copeland | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

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