Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlers filled up the West, they adapted their breeds, e.g., the cowboy's quarter-horse, the gentleman farmer's Tennessee walking horse, the American saddle horse, to suit the jobs at hand. The famed Pony Express brought 500 top-quality horses, ranging from three-quarter English thoroughbreds to golden California palomino mustangs, to supply relays for the rugged 2,000-mile route from St. Joseph, Mo., over the Rockies and west to Sacramento. Calif...
...mention the physiological correlates of emotion, you're being false to the given facts . . . What we need is another set of words. Words that can express the natural togetherness of things. Muco-spiritual, for example, or dermatocharity . . . Why not viscerosophy...
...belief is a simple one: I believe in Britain's glory"), improved Northcliffe's formula by aggressive, enterprising coverage, and brisk, clever editing. (He still bars cheesecake and leering sex from his papers.) The Beaver's standing order: "Ban the word 'exclusive' from the Express. Our aim is to make everything exclusive...
Back to Vulcan. The metal sculpture school has roots as far back as Vulcan. Its immediate antecedent is constructivism, proclaimed by two Russian-born brothers, Naum Gabo (now in the U.S.) and Antoine Pevsner (now in Paris), who in 1920 revolted against cubism: "Depth alone can express space. We reject mass as an element of sculpture . . ." By approaching the problem like engineers, Gabo and Pevsner (see color page opposite) turned out metal objects that have the smooth, polished beauty-and the coldness-of a mathematical equation...
...seeing in an age of electronics, supersonics and atomic power. At the moment they represent a continuing effort to rework the common materials of the age. By using techniques borrowed from airplane factory and auto assembly lines, modern-day sculptors are finding new ways to express man's place, or lack of it, in a fast-changing, highly technical and anxious...