Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While reporters and photographers were at work, so was Cover Artist Henry Koerner, whose difficult assignment was to express the determined U.S. presence in a painting. For five days, he hopped from Bien Hoa to Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay, Qui Nhon and An Khe. "Fantastic! Marvelous!" he would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save...
...City concludes with the idea that Christianity may have to stop talking about God for a while, complains about the writers' imprecise language. "Is it the loss of the experience of God, the loss of the existence of God in Christianity, or the lack of adequate language to express God today?" he asks. The Union Theological Seminary's Daniel Day Williams sums up the inner contradictions of the movement with an aphorism: "There is no God, and Jesus is his only begotten son." Many ministers, moreover, complain that the death-of-God thinkers reduce Christianity to just another...
...stripe on an orange ground, went for $26,000. A 1951 Clyfford Still garnered $29,000. Mark Rothko's hovering red panel fetched $15,500. Two Franz Klines were bid up to $18000 and $19,000. What about pop? Only one work, Robert Rauschenberg's elaborate montage Express, was put on the block; it was knocked down for a record...
...failure of a politically radical minority to create massive support, but the failure of most of the Scholars to use this opportunity to reappraise their attitudes towards Vietnam and their roles in this democracy, the failure of most of the Scholars to consider how they can best express their opinions and whether it is worth the bother. And these are in turn part of the failure of American attitudes and institutions to accommodate--let alone encourage--dissent. In view of this, it is important to mention the individual actions inspired by the appeal--that Jacquelyn Evans and George Cave returned...
Rather than cartoons, Edward Kienholz, 38, goes in for whole stage sets (or "tableaux," as he calls them) that have the grisly impact of a charnel house, yet on second glance present deeply shocking morality plays. Birthday, says the well-spoken former farmer, should express the hope offered by even the most forlorn birth. Giant plastic arrows express resurrection, even if with a tainted blatancy; the plastic bubble above the mannequin mother's mouth, actually a dimestore baby's plastic bubble, symbolizes a scream. It is theater, embalmed in translucent epoxy and cluttered with props-a ghostly coat...