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∙NAM JUNE PAIK, 33, a Korean, is a devotee of Composer John Cage, and his primary ambition was to compose far-out sounds. Electronic music inspired him to make electronic art, just as the Russian composer Scriabin made a motorized light display to accompany his Prometheus half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: The Movement Movement | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

In Torquemada, Howard Fast has reached back 500 years to compose a bitter fictional parable about one of the most detested figures in the history of man or of man's religion-the Dominican Friar Thomas de Torquemada, Prior of Segovia and Grand Inquisitor of Spain. Or so it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fast Shuffle | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

The just way to handle the situation would be to compute the cost of maintaining dining-hall facilities, excluding food. The girls that live off campus compose about 25% of Radcliffe's population. Their board fee should therefore be 25% of this "non-food" kitchen overhead plus the cost of...

Author: By Steven W. Frantz, | Title: Raising the Rents | 1/19/1966 | See Source »

Orphaned as a baby, she was adopted by a Micmac Indian couple-a mechanic and his proofreader wife-and raised in Wakefield, Mass. Her summers were spent in a trailer on the shores of Sebago Lake, Me. It was there as a teenager, wandering alone through the forest, that she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Solitary Indian | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

Marguerite Duras is a fashionable French novelist whose work declines as her reputation grows. The Sea Wall (1950), her first novel, was a book of unusual promise: a gruelingly realistic description of life on a moldering plantation in French Indo-China, where she grew up. Since then, Author Duras has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Let Me Count the Ways | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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