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...view were more than 130 aggressively new objects, everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces of whisk-broom straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Isamu-san & Shirley Too | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Finally, like a man departing suddenly into a dream, Traven forgets all about his principal characters, including even the invaluable piglets, and turns his novel into a featureless mass drama which he can neither inspire nor bring to a conclusion. His Rebellion winds up as third-rate Uncle Tom's Cabin, with the debilitating difference that the slavery Traven writes about with John Brown heat has already been abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Candido & the Capitalists | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...beginning, says one school of cosmology, there was "ylem"*: a featureless mass of protons and neutrons containing all the matter in the universe. A little later (perhaps during the second microsecond of Creation), a "great event" took place. The ylem exploded with enough force to toss most of its matter a billion light years away. During the early moments of the resulting confusion, the protons and neutrons reorganized themselves into the chemical elements that form the present-day universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Great Event | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Letter from Italy. Nevertheless, a few people in Italy remembered Francesco, and at the end of World War II he was pleased to get a letter from Francavilla Fontana, his struggling home town on the featureless plain of Brindisi. The letter was from a family with ten children, so desperately poor that they were reduced to clothing themselves with paper bags. Francesco did not know them, and furthermore his shop was making only $15 a week. But, he reflected, his wife was making good wages at a ladies' belt factory; on re-reading the letter he could not help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Frank's Barber Shop | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...shock. Imdahl would rather write novels, he says, "but I'm so much at a loss for words that I find even simple conversation painful. I want to compose songs, but how to do so is beyond me. So I paint." His Man was a flat, featureless, lemon-yellow figure with a broken-looking neck, suspended against a pitch-black background. It could well symbolize the state of art in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern in the Dark | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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