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...wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a mat, flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings-a pure, abstract nonobjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relation-less, disinterested painting-an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent, awaare of no thing but art (absolutely no anti...
Shooting Particles. Though his constructions often resemble something in nature-a huge sun, a giant dandelion, a weeping willow-Bertoia does not work directly from nature. Usually he places a piece of paper over an inked surface and with a wire brush gently traces out a quick, freehand design. For more solid forms he may press the paper with his fingers, or use a piece of metal to print a sharp edge. When the design pleases him, he tries to reproduce it in metal, twisting and bending bunches of rods this way and that. As he wrestles with...
Both Arch Sci 30 and the other undergraduate course, Freehand Drawing, have been able to add an extra section. A new instructor, William Boyen, has been appointed...
PHILIPPINES (19 million Christians). Chief troubles besetting the estimated 2,000,000 Protestants are about 17 million Roman Catholics, whose priests, says Gill, oppress the people and oppose the growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions...
...freehand paraphrase of British Poet W. H. Auden, Bachelor Hammarskjold often declares: "Private faces should not be caught in public places"-and for some time after he became U.N. Secretary-General he was dismayed by the extent to which his private face was on public display. But he also inherited, as he once wrote, "a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country-or humanity. This service required sacrifice of all personal interests"-including, it soon became clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes...