Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that faces little danger of closing: the periodic meetings of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom on the 1953 Korean truce line. The initial, stated purpose of the commission-to police the armistice between the two Koreas-has long since been overshadowed by Red propaganda and invective. But the endless sessions serve as a grim reminder that Korea, where 54,000 Americans died and 50,000 are on active service, is still a point of confrontation between two armies in a war never formally ended...
Perpetual motion seems to propel Alechinsky's art. In Brussels, at 17, he began studying typography, etching and book design, before his love of graphics led him to make endless editions of lithographs. Today his Paris studio is paved with lithographic stones. "It's like walking on pop art," he says. He aligned himself briefly with the COBRA group (TIME, Dec. 12), studied engraving in 1952 with Stanley Hayter's famed Paris Atelier 17, and three years later made a film in Tokyo on Japanese calligraphy. Nothing can quench Alechinsky's passion for scrawling, restless lines...
...action painting, he only uses it as a means of liberating his vision. He explains: "I don't think there's any point to endless searches for new techniques, like musicians looking for new sonorities. It is still possible to get touching music from the piano. With oil and brush, you can tell a story. You don't need 40 tons of cement. Give a man a piece of paper and a pencil, and you'll see what he can produce with means so simple and humble." What Alechinsky does is to turn...
...shibui, which translates as "astringent" or, as a contemporary mingei potter defines it, "ordered poverty." Mingei is still created in Japan today; the Japan Folk Craft Society has 3,000 members and the government has named 31 craftsmen as living "Intangible Cultural Assets." And though critics deplore the endless stream of lacquerware and transistorized radios sold by Japan to the world, few criticize the elegance of such objects. Even in an age of industrialization, craftsmanship still remains a living tradition as old as Japan...
...they had not sought and could not win. The British offensive, launched in 1879, inexorably rolled on to destroy the most powerful nation that Black Africa ever produced. Author Morris has burdened the story of the Zulu nation's fitful reign and ultimate decline with unessential detail and endless digression. But the story itself survives his maltreatment...