Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth may deserve a little better reputation than it received after the Brown game, and Harvard perhaps a little less. But the Crimson is not the same team it was when it faced the Bruins, and it would be a mistake to judge it on its early October form...
Almost no grass is available at Harvard because of the crackdown against smuggling form Mexico, two government officials said Thursday. (For details, see page...
...with that daring and brashness that is both the American virtue and vice, Jackson Pollock and others who followed him dispensed with the easel format, spread their canvases on the floor, and poured out tangled rhythms in loops and swirls of paint. What they accomplished was the destruction of form itself. "That liberation," says Japanese Critic Ichiro Hariu, "fired the imagination of artists around the world and touched off an artistic chain reaction." Adds Chicago Professor Franz Schulze: "Whether Abstract Expressionism was successful or not is less important than that it persuaded other American artists to make equally radical gestures...
...rationale has been that U.S. citizens sailing on American ships help narrow the balance of payments deficit by spending their ticket money with domestic instead of foreign companies. It is doubtful, however, that the balance of payments gains are worth spending so much taxpayers' money in the form of subsidies...
...million. When Steinberg, a tall and portly man, announced last summer that he intended to make a $60 million bid for the London scientific publishing house of Pergamon Press Ltd., Britons viewed him as a brash Yankee millionaire-one of those action sculptors who hammer out free-form conglomerates. This impression was fortified by Leasco's on-again, off-again tactics. After withdrawing the offer in a falling-out with Pergamon's chairman, Robert Maxwell, with whom he had originally got on well, Steinberg lined up enough support from British institutional investors to oust Maxwell at a stormy...