Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXPRESSIONISM, the theory which holds that nature must be remodeled to reflect the artist's own inner vision, has often proved more trap than triumph. But for a favored few it has provided the channel to a new freedom in 20th century art, a fact strikingly demonstrated by the two hit shows of the current Paris season: a two-month-long retrospective of the late Russian-born Chaim Soutine, and the current full-scale retrospective for doughty, 80-year-old Maurice de Vlaminck...
...Stassen and his wife were on the point of going home when up barged Andrei Gromyko. "Have you met Khrushchev yet?" asked Gromyko, who is Stassen's opposite number on the five-man U.N. subcommittee meeting in London to discuss disarmament. Seconds later Stassen found himself in an inner sanctum, peeling grapes with the Kremlin's masters. For two hours he listened to the bluntest Russian talk yet on the subject of disarmament...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh has recorded her reflections during a several week's sojourn by the sea. Increasingly disturbed by the difficulty of retaining a sense of individuality in the midst of life's ecomplexities, she seeks an "inner harmony," a pattern for her life...
...other hand, those who have experienced the same problems and appreciate someone else's reaction to them will find the book a reassuring and helpful account of one woman's search for inner security...
Baschet's first musical invention was a collapsible guitar, built around an inflatable plastic cushion. It has a soft, seductive tone, can be deflated or patched like an inner tube. "After I invented it, I wanted to know why it worked," he explains. The search led him to Paris' National Library and books of 19th century acousticians, e.g., Helmholtz. Their theoretical discussions flashed through Baschet's teeming imagination and emerged as sounds-new sounds of otherworldly groans, melodious thuds and haunting echoes, which came from the vibrations of two metal spirals plus a plastic resonator. Baschet took...