Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where-the-action-is London, the ultimate cool is to be a fashion photographer. Fashion photographers, after all, live in converted carriage houses, make love to the world's most exotic miniskirted women, and play with cameras, fabulous toys of the jet-set generation...
Rembrandt's The Rape of Europa, painted in 1632, beautifully exemplifies the powerful Baroque dramatization, the juxtaposition of rich golden browns with cool tones of blue, and the intricate articulation of the detail which characterize the mythological paintings of his early years. The rest of the Rembrandts are mediocre at best. The two portraits of Joannes Elison and Maria Bocknelle are flat and uninteresting. The Portrait of Young Titus has gained wider acclaim from its price than from its quality. This washed-out portrait--which fetched $2.25 million may even be misnamed. It is the only painting which portrays Rembrandt...
...Your article regarding the dismissal of California's President Clark Kerr [Jan. 27] is disturbing in its lack of perception. Dr. Kerr most certainly did not "lose his cool" during the 1964 demonstrations at Berkeley, nor has he since. If anything, he lost the deserved, rational support of the news media and moderate public in California, who were willing to allow the hue and cry of a few brief, sophomoric disturbances to obscure the significant miracle of Berkeley's steady rise to first place among the nation's-and probably the world's-graduate schools...
...coalition of sensationalism and anti-intellectualism that sacrificed a great man to minor issues. It was the 14 regents of the University who, in firing Dr. Kerr, "lost their cool." Now the vast majority of students and faculty who have been directly affected by his dismissal are straining to keep from losing theirs...
...simultaneous one-man exhibitions-indoors by Philadelphia's I.C.A. and outdoors by Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. Six months ago, only two of Smith's pieces had ever been shown publicly. Today he is billed as one of the most significant "new" sculptors, a vigorous exponent of cool geometry known variously as "primary structures" or "minimal...