Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed. Occasionally, trapped policemen would fire in the air. One unidentified civilian fired three shots, but no witness could discover his target. Nevertheless, the report is a warning that another confrontation might not be so fortunate. It notes: "To read dispassionately the hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a police riot...
Sometimes Reisner lectures on graffiti in history, from Pompeii to frontier America, or examines ways in which graffiti illuminate social or political frustrations. But more often the class will repair to a nearby bistro for a firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti...
WHEN the bombing-halt negotiations neared the final stage, Washington officials categorically refused to give interviews and, in some cases, even to take phone calls. For that matter, all but a select few had no firsthand knowledge of the frenetic, hyper-secret maneuverings. Said one participant: "Fewer men are fully clued into these contacts than were involved in the Cuba missile crisis...
...play. It is not out to be a good one, in terms of drama's traditional concern with fate, foibles, language and ideas. Like the propaganda playlets of guerrilla theater (TIME, Oct. 18), this play is intended to be a felt experience for the audience-firsthand rather than projected. Yelling and chanting, the actors mingle with the playgoers on the way to their seats. No makeup is used, the lights are always up, there is no intermission, and the actors-usually within touching distance-frequently appeal to, or bark at, the audience...
...eras of painting have ever been shown in the U.S. or anywhere else outside their native land. These are the fresco paintings of Italy, some of the transcendent achievements of the Italian Renaissance. For centuries, art lovers have had to admire them by reputation and reproduction. To see them firsthand required a trip to Italy. Before oil painting was imported from Northern Europe and the artist's vision shrank to the size of canvases that could be moved from wall to wall, the greatest Gothic and Renaissance artists decorated entire cathedrals, cloisters and chapels with floor-to-ceiling murals...