Word: jensenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh Approach. Businessmen have discovered that leisure-market acquisitions can be every bit as profitable as companies in glamour industries. Jensen Marine, a fast-growing West Coast boatbuilder bought nearly two years ago by Bangor Punta, a Maine conglomerate, last year earned its new owner profits far in excess of the industry average (4% after taxes) on its $6,000,000 in sales...
...with a clue supplied by a young archaeology enthusiast, Ramskou has discovered the secret of the sun-seeking stones of the ancients. To the ten-year-old son of Jorgen Jensen, chief navigator of the Scandinavian Airlines System, the instrument described in Skalk sounded much like the twilight compass used by his father on flights at high latitudes, where the magnetic compass is unreliable. The twilight compass is equipped with a Polaroid filter that enables a navigator to locate the position of the sun-even when it is behind clouds or below the horizon-by the sunlight polarized...
Flight test. Intrigued by his son's observation, Jensen passed it on to Ramskou, who immediately recognized its scientific implication. Enlisting the aid of Denmark's royal-court jeweler, the archaeologist collected minerals found in Scandinavia whose molecules are all aligned parallel to each other, just as the crystals are in a Polaroid filter. Ramskou found that one of these minerals, a transparent crystal called cordierite, turned from yellow to dark blue whenever its natural molecular alignment was held at right angles to the plane of polarized light from the sun. Thus, he reasoned, a Viking could have...
Putting cordierite to the test, Ramskou accompanied Navigator Jensen on an SAS flight to Greenland, keeping track of the sun with his stone while Jensen used the twilight compass. His observations were accurate to within 21° of the sun's true position, and he was able to track the sun until it had dipped 7° below the horizon. "I now feel convinced," Ramskou concludes, "that the old Viking sailors with the aid of their sun stones could navigate with enormous accuracy...
...representational art. Veteran Abstractionist Gene Davis sets the eye dancing in Phantom Tattoo with a 10-ft. by 19-ft. cascade of multicolored awning stripes. Ellsworth Kelly does three giant, economy-size rectangles of flat color (one each of red, yellow and blue) covering 89 sq. ft. Alfred Jensen's four-paneled impasto consists of dozens of big squares, little squares, houndstooth checks, checkerboards and signal flags-all in a canvas measuring 7 ft. by 28 ft. Alex Katz deftly pinpoints a life-size Lawn Party, in a realistically painted 9-ft. by 12-ft. canvas populated...