Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When scientists talk about life, whose culmination, so far, is man, they generally stick to material aspects that they know well how to handle. Those scientists who believe that man also has a unique rational element, a soul-and some of them do -do not generally consider it a proper subject for scientific inquiry, although for many of them the basic subject of study is man. Result is that though they are deeply imbued with the ultimate mystery of the universe, they often talk as if man were no more than an animal crowded and shaped by deterministic forces...
...first important leader of the left to rally to General de Gaulle 18 months ago, solemnly warned Premier Debré: "When great tasks-the Franco-African community, Algeria, international affairs-require the greatest national unity, you choose at that very moment to introduce the most terrible element of discord. You triumph, but I do not envy...
Kricke's method is to sculpt with lines, which are his tubes. As he composes them, the tubes do not seem to outline shapes; they remain lines, as in handwriting or neon. "Never, never," Kricke vows, "will I use lines as a limiting element!" The eye follows Kricke's lines as if they were intertwining jets of water, now fast, now slow, and changing with each new viewpoint, or starting place. The effect on the viewer can be as exhilarating as that of negotiating a parkway cloverleaf at maximum speed, or of flashing through a night-blazing city...
...water forms. He will collaborate with Architect Walter Gropius on fountain designs for the University of Baghdad. "A fountain," says Kricke, "is often nothing but a Neptune ringed by spitting fish. The real thing should not be a mere mass from which water spurts. It is water, the passive element, endowed with activity. It is water, the silent element, endowed with a voice. It is water, the shapeless element, endowed with a form...