Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agam's art, in one sense, is intended to disturb. "This is a living wall," he insists. "Like reality, it is changing, disappearing, ever present. Its impact comes from its attempt to accept change." Looking at a wall from one angle, for example, the viewer sees an overall pattern of black and white; then from a different perspective it seems to explode in dozens of bright hues. Sometimes the scheme is a bold arrangement of pop colors. Turn around and it is all delicate pastels...
...forbid that we should have violence. God forbid that we should disturb the slumber of rational discourse on Capitol Hill. God forbid that we should...
Harvard's most influential outside pressure group-the alumni-have spoken on the events of the past year in a poll of its members by the Harvard Club of New York City. The results were rarely surprising. For most of these alumni, only the actions of students disturb their relative contentment with the status...
...with the Egyptian armed forces' preparations for war, not to allow them to remain at peace so that they can prepare for a war. Nasser said half a year ago that he has half a million soldiers and was going up to a million. Our deep penetrations definitely disturb these preparations. Large amounts of equipment have been destroyed. The Egyptians have been forced to move back antiaircraft and artillery to protect themselves not only on the canal but also west of Cairo...
Beware Pastels. The pioneers of the New Thing have become heroes to pockets of admirers all over the world. But even after a decade, the new sound is still largely unfamiliar to many listeners. Uninhibited, impolite, impatient, the New Thing often seems intended only to disturb. One reason: it is as much involved with the pain of being black in the U.S. as Dixieland was with the exhilaration of marching in New Orleans parades. "To disturb people-at least what they mean by disturb-that's the whole point," says Sunny Murray, whose dense and relentless drumming is mind...