Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibit, which opened yesterday at the Museum of Science, explores that basically unanswerable question. "Creativity: The Human Resources," focuses on the works of 15 creative American individuals and one team drawn from the ranks of science, architecture, music and art. From the notebooks, sketches, diagrams and models of these people, and from taped and filmed discussions with them, the visitor can observe some of the characteristics shared by creative people and watch the creative process unfolding...
...individuals highlighted in the exhibit include scientists Melvin Calvin, Margaret Mead, Linus Pauling, Simon Ramo, Jonas Salk and Charles Townes; designers Buckminster Fuller, Lawrence Halprin and George Nelson; composer John Cage; artists Romare Beardon, Judy Chicago, Jasper Johns and Roman Vishniac; and choreographer Merce Cunningham. In addition, the show examines the work of the team of seismologists, geologists, and oceanographers which developed the theory of plate tectonics...
...exhibit which opened yesterday at the Boston Museum of Science is different. "Creativity: The Human Resource" is a tribute to a process, not an end. It examines how people get somewhere, not where they are going. In diverging from a well-traveled path, its designers have tackeled a task which is, in itself, creative...
...idea of an exhibit on creativity evolved when the Chevron Family of Companies began searching for a way to celebrate its centennial. Planners and designers comparing the America of 1879 to the America of a century later decided that the single unifying force which accounted for a hundred years of change was the spirit of innovation. Out of this realization the conception of a tribute to creativity was born...
...photographer who has followed Walesa notes that he never passes a mirror without stopping to pat his hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody." Yet he can be remarkably highhanded when chairing union meetings, often interrupting speakers...