Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hits of the Whitney's show, as of any show, were the works in which form and content were so skillfully united as to be indistinguishable. Burr Miller's sleeping alabaster nude entitled Subconscious and Koren Der Harootian's swooping Sea Bird and Fish were two such sculptures...
Rewards & Quests. As an example of failure, Bell cites the modern college freshmen as he sees them. "They cannot look at a thing and tell you what they see; listen to sounds and know what they hear; by the touch truly perceive form; sense how others feel and why; read, write, speak with any sure knowledge of how words are to be handled . . . think in general terms as distinct from specific and concrete particulars...
Each working day, Los Angeles oil refineries and other processing plants spew out a mixture of gaseous wastes containing about 800 tons of sulphur dioxide. As it rises into the air, the sulphur dioxide combines with water vapor and oxygen to form sulphuric acid. The minuscule droplets pick up more water and a variety of solid particles (e.g., soot, dust), until the City of the Angels wears, instead of a halo, a hat of dirty grey smog...
...festival of the bulls is the only art form in which violence, bloodshed and death are palpable and unfeigned. It is the only art in which the artist deals actual death and risks actual death, as if a poet were called upon to scan his lines with his life . . . All arts, even the most abstract, are essentially creations to thrill. To allow man to participate in God's designs at one step removed from the anguish of living them...
Randall, who is executive vice-president of the Inland Steel Company of Chicago, has long held connections in the University. At present, as a member of the Board of Overseers, be serves on many committees which form policy in different College departments...