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...great formal artist (as distinct from vivid dream illustrators like Dali or Magritte). Even allowing for the recent rise in the critical fortunes of André Masson, the painter who introduced Miró to the surrealist group, it still seems clear that, as a draftsman and colorist, as an inventor of epigrammatic shapes set in exquisitely pure pictorial fields, Miró had no rival within that movement...
When Dynamite Inventor Alfred Nobel created his great prizes at the turn of the century, he stipulated that they be given for notable achievement in the previous year. The Swedish jurors have long since abandoned that encumbering rule because it has led to some embarrassing decisions, such as a 1926 award for discovery of a "cancer causing" parasite. No one, however, could accuse the Swedes of haste or incaution last week when they completed this year's science awards, worth $192,000 apiece...
...importance of the award went far beyond the $192,000 in cash or the gold medal emblazoned with an image of the award's founder, 19th century Inventor Alfred Nobel, that the winner will receive in Oslo on Dec. 10. Walesa's selection boosted the sagging morale of a movement that has been crippled since General Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law in December 1981. For Poland's government, it was a stinging reminder that the world had not forgotten the ideals behind Solidarity's struggle...
...Inventor Josepho, who is a Socialist only three years removed from penniless Russian immigrancy, will act consistently. Half of his million he will devote to general charity; half "to helping my brother inventors to similar success...
...pursuit. Whatever attention scientific matters received in the press was permeated with either an excess of awe or an abundance of naivete, or both. Even so, TIME decided to take science seriously, and its very first issue carried seven stories on the subject. One concerned the proposal of an inventor named...