Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic technique. He piled paint layer upon layer, to thicknesses of a quarter of an inch, often returning to work on a canvas while it was still wet. He found it almost impossible to think of a painting as finished, frequently took back ones he had sold and com pletely reworked them. He called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a foot ing," he said. The result was that each canvas...
...creators of Western civilization. Choral works that he turned out for rowdy schoolboys to sing in drafty provincial churches are cherished by the world's finest choruses. Keyboard exercises that he jotted down for his children and students still beguile and challenge great virtuosos. Instrumental pieces that he com posed to curry favor with obscure princelings are judged among the glories of all chamber music...
...taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math." Fervently preaching involvement with the community, Francis is himself the foremost exemplar sitting on more than half a dozen local committees and com missions. He even owns a small piece of the National Football League's New Orleans Saints...
...mellower moments, Norris seemed content to let Watson's IBM hold the overwhelming lead: "I want Control Data to be the Ford of the com puter industry." Though few people expect that IBM will be broken up, Control Data's suit may force the giant to back up a step or two. At the very least, it may prevent premature announcements of computers that are not quite ready to live up to expectations...
...many Japanese. The part finally went to an ex-army private, Takeo Kagitani, who is now the 56-year-old president of Takachiho Trading Co. (1967 sales: $27.7 million). Kagitani had no trouble getting a leave from his board. He owns some 90% of the stock in his com pany, which imports Burroughs business machines. The executive cropped his hair in the military style and visited Yamamoto's grave near Tokyo to offer his prayers. He asked the admiral's spirit, he says, for forgiveness for the "many mistakes I might commit in portraying him." Now Kagitani drives...