Word: globularity
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...spite of himself, Dubuffet has at times achieved a sort of beauty-the warmth of a mellow brown-red, the haunted look of some of his globular spooks. But essentially his work cannot be judged by the eye, for he insists that he is addressing the mind. And if the mind reels, that is just the effect Dubuffet wants. "A work of art," says he, "must have a significance so profound, so universal, so numerous and diverse, that each can drink from it the liqueur that he likes. Never explained (to explain would be to exhaust), never totally deciphered...
...Slate. Aquanauts' chase scenes take on an odd, ballet quality 35 fathoms down, and the special language of the skindivers is at least less rusty than the dialogue that comes out of the average Warner Bros.' stage coach. On last week's show, snagging a smoothly globular blonde, played by Darrah Marshall, one aquanaut observed: "I knew I'd have to decompress her before I took her to the surface...
...Cape Canaveral at 10:23 one morning last week roared a 90-ft., 52½-ton Thor-Able rocket, lifting cleanly into an overcast sky with steadily increasing acceleration. Two minutes and 40 seconds later the second stage fired smoothly, then the third. Out from the sides of the globular pay load unfolded four strange paddles. As the "paddlewheel satellite" tumbled through space at 171 revolutions per minute, 8,000 solar cells in the 20-inch-square vanes picked up the sun's energy to charge the chemical batteries, send messages back to the earthlings. Seventeen minutes after launching...
Composer Stockhausen thinks that electronic music has scarcely begun to explore its potentialities. Says he earnestly: "I want to be able to bring sounds from every surface area of the room. Why not loudspeakers on swings overhead or a completely globular room with loudspeakers blanketing the walls and the listeners on a platform suspending in the center...
...perhaps a tear or two, and three or four years of intellectual stasis behind him. His are the narrow shoulders upon which the nation expects to climb to the moon, to harness atomic energy for peaceful purposes, to solve the questions of sociological change, and to patch up the globular balloon for another generation of battering. He is also our greatest tragedy...