Word: geometricism
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He often for contemplation Rosalind Moulton's "Abstraction" a stone-like mans Floating on water, reflected in many unusual geometric patterns on the surface below. It teams our thoughts into inquiries as to its substance and existence.
The engravings include a rich but baffling array of symbols. The most frequently recurring images are horned figures-what De Lumley calls "stylized cattle." There are also daggers, crosslike inscriptions, stars and geometric forms, all of which may have had religious significance. Only a few hundred of the 37,000...
Nader stoutly defends the project, on which he has spent $200,000 and employed 1,000 paid writers and volunteers. His hope is that the effort will spur Congress to hold a special session next year specifically devoted to its own reform. Congress, he says accurately enough, has abdicated its...
Died. Dr. Solomon Lefschetz, 88, pioneering mathematician in algebraic geometry and topology (the study of constant properties in changing geometric forms); in Princeton, N.J. Trained as an engineer, Lefschetz turned to theoretical mathematics after losing both hands in a 1910 accident. For nearly 30 years the peppery theorist was on...
To the Navajo, a blanket was a second skin. He wore it, slept under it and hung it across the door of his hogan, both as a defense against wind and rain and as an object of delight. Its geometric patterns, rarely repeated, expressed the individuality of the creator and...