Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tracing the "lost wax" process used by Greek sculptors in the Art story "Young Man of Piraeus" [March 30], you describe a final step: "Molten bronze poured between the two clay surfaces melted the wax and replaced it, forming a hollow statue of bronze filled with irremovable clay." The wax, in any "lost wax" process, cast today as well as in ancient times, always has to be burned out of the mold before the bronze can be poured...
...slice of fruitcake." The heaviest concentration of aleatory composers is in Germany, where-in addition to Stockhausen-South Korean Composer Nam June Paik (Homage to John Cage), and the German Hans Otte (Tropism I, II) and Austrian Friedrich Cerha (Movements) all preach the gospel of chance. France has Greek-born Composer lannis Xenakis and Italy Composer Sylvano Bussotti. who has written, among other things, a piano piece in which the keys are to be touched but not depressed...
Back at the Ranch. The West Side apartment of Textile Manufacturer Benjamin Heller strikes some as an art gallery with a bed. Huge paintings by Pollock, Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around...
...Overseers promoted eight men to full professorships: Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy; John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English; Wendell H. Furry, professor of Physics; Roy J. Glauber '45, professor of Physics; Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government; Bernhard Kummel, professor of Geology; Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin; and Renato Tagiuri, professor of Social Sciences in Business Administration...
...View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details...