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...climactic paintings of the early '60s, like Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart...
Cameron P. Hum Irvine, California
Room 307. There's an audible hum in Malcolm Thompson's classroom, known at Dalton as the ``AstroCave.'' Seven computers are in use, each surrounded by a clutch of students murmuring in continual discussion of their work. The place is littered with 13 1/2-in. square Palomar plates -- grayish films, sprinkled with dark points of light representing stars and nebulae that were recorded by the 48-in. telescope at California's Palomar Observatory. Each student has chosen three stars and has been asked to calculate their brightness and temperature based on what the pupils see on the plates and can glean...
...lesser-known musical talents include singing and the ability to whistle one melodic line, hum another, and (sometimes) play a piano score at the same time.. a veritable one-man trio. "I didn't learn to whistle until about six years ago," he remembers. "Once I learned how to whistle to begin with, it wasn't that much harder [to hum at the same time]." Elkies explains that as a pianist, he was already accustomed to controlling several different musical lines at once...
...over Germany's General Rommel, the Desert Fox. "They don't use the words initiative or boldness in talking of me," Eisenhower wrote. "It wearies me to be thought of as timid, when I've had to do things that were so risky as to be almost crazy. Oh hum...