Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the tobacco port of Samsun on Turkey's northern coast looms a huge tower-top radar eye that looks across the Black 'Sea and deep into Russia. Operated by General Electric Co. under contract with the U.S. Air Force, the eye tracks test missiles launched 700 miles away at Krasnyy Yar, Russia's version of Cape Canaveral, Fla. A vital source of U.S. intelligence about Soviet missiles, the Samsun radar picked up the 1,000-mile flight of an intermediate range ballistic missile in mid-1955, has detected five IRBM launchings a month over the past...
This week, after the eye had done its missile-tracking in secrecy-wrapped obscurity for more than two years, the trade journal Aviation Week (circ. 67,000) ripped off the wraps. Since the Samsun installation is no secret to the Russians, argued Aviation Week, there is no reason to keep it a secret from the U.S. public...
These themes very soon became hackneyed and commonplace, boring the readers, but authors under the direct control of the Communist Party couldn't do anything about it. During his period of creativity, stop lights flash in the author's mind's eye warning him not to stray from the path marked out by the almighty Party. Such authors had an audience, of course, because it was compulsory for us to study the cliches they wrote, but they had no followers. Indeed, all branches of communist art lose themselves in a blind alley. Art is a decaying skeleton, kept from complete...
...more emotional and more antique argument rests upon an expansion of the "eye for an eye" dogma. A crime, they say, warrants a punishment equal to its viciousness. But modern penal theory and greater concern for the individual life strongly dilute these arguments. Britain's Sir John Anderson states, "There is no longer in our regard of the criminal law any recognition of such primitive conceptions as atonement or retribution." A dogmatic, retaliatory instinct cannot justify the ultimate penalty...
Portfolio is by no means stereotyped in its choice of material, presenting a wide range of media and technique. Eric Martin combines a photographic process with his brush-and-ink self-portrait, symbolizing "the eye" as an artist conceives it. Willard Midgette and Earl Newman offer woodcuts whose heavy, determined forms bespeak another temperament and approach altogether...