Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events have moved at the pace of an avant-garde movie edited by a mad cutter. The alarms, the assassinations, the political reversals and the extremist cries have been so overwhelming that even last week's Czechoslovak tragedy may seem like only one more episode by Christmas. The common reaction is "What a year!", followed quickly by "What next?" Was there ever a year that could match this one for continued shocks, for a sense that "things fall apart, the center cannot hold...
only by force of arms and not by common consent...
...important, not what it represents. "We are going beyond abstraction," argues Robert Irwin, who at 40 is something of a guru to the group. Irwin's own works are illuminated disks set against a white wall. Others in the group vary widely but are united by a common dedication to "cool" materials far divorced from the conventions of oil paint and bronze-plastics, neon, acrylics, Plexiglas, aluminum. They also share a preoccupation with a visual illusionism that plays with space and color to make the eye see beyond the surface of the work, perhaps inspired by the clear, bright...
...Gamow, 64, Russian-born theoretical physicist and astronomer; of a gastric hemorrhage; in Boulder, Colo. Although he worked in the arcane worlds of entropy and anti-numbers, Gamow had a rare gift for explaining science to the layman. While teaching at George Washington University, he put his clarity and common sense into nine books, including The Birth and Death of the Sun (1940) and The Creation of the Universe...
From time immemorial the European peasant has prayed for plentiful harvests. Yet plenty has not necessarily been good for the Common Market's 11 million farmers. Blessed by good crops and improved farming techniques, they have accumulated huge surpluses of agricultural products, and are swamped by tomatoes, cauliflowers, apples, plums and pears. In Germany alone, the government has had to buy and store some 80,000 tons of surplus butter, which is now known as the Butterberg (butter mountain...