Word: geist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That, insofar as other cultures embody strange intellectual Geisten . these may be fit for anthropological study, but they are not valid alternatives to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geist, being basically "unscientific," and they are not to be pursued by a conscientious student for purposes of intellectual liberation...
...been trained as a cabinetmaker, and when he worked in wood, he could express himself with peasant vigor. The jagged forms of The Cock, shown here in bronze, were originally carved in wood, concentrating the character of the barnyard bully into his aggressive beak and flaring tail feathers. Sidney Geist, author of the leading study of Brancusi's work and guest curator of the current exhibition, puts the matter succinctly: "Enviable in its scope, dazzling in its perfections, tentative only in its repetitions, the scale of this effort is human rather than superhuman...
...single hit that Kalinoski relinquished between the first and ninth innings drove in two runs in Northeastern's half of the sixth. After Kalinoski hit pinch-hitter Bill Shea and walked right-fielder Cam VanderVeer, Bob Geist singled into center to narrow the lead to two runs...
Appealing to another set of readers is a comic-strip character named Phoebe Zeit-Geist, a curvaceous nude who is continually being assaulted by men, women, animals and monsters. From each scrape, she escapes with her smooth skin, at least, entirely intact. When one tormentor turned out to be a German army officer, the issue was banned in West Germany. Two issues later, Evergreen gave equal time, as it were, and made Phoebe's torturer a rabbi. Having mined that vein, Evergreen temporarily dropped Phoebe after one last mass orgy of sadism in which all her enemies ganged...
CLAES OLDENBURG-Janis, 15 East 57th. Known for "happenings" and Hamburgers, Oldenburg performs a new kind of artistic hocuspocus. With a fine feeling for materials, he instills inanimate objects with Geist, then wrenches from them a whole range of emotions. His Soft Telephone, its mouthpiece dangling, its coin box regurgitating, is a sad sack in shiny black vinyl. A Soft Typewriter, its pearly Plexiglas keys hopelessly entangled, collapses into its shell with the mortification of a machine that suddenly finds itself ready for IBM's junk heap. Other objects in 22 materials along with some drawings. Through...