Word: labyrinth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Western correspondents in Moscow, getting the news has always involved threading a labyrinth of uncooperative and inaccessible officialdom. Did the recent change in the Soviet high command make things any better? Last week, after spending seven days in Moscow talking to 18 "officials and editors," the New York Times's Associate Editor "Scotty" Reston cabled a two-column "news analysis" with the pregnant, telltale observation: "The people who have power are not available for discussion, and the people who are available have no power...
...legitimate ancestry. Cezanne, Seurat and Monet seized upon newly proposed theories of optics when they painted. In this century, such constructivists as Mondrian and Malevich were the forebears of op art's dry, highly controlled use of color, which sometimes-as in the work of Britain's labyrinth-making Jeffrey Steele, 33 (above) -amounts to rejecting color. When they do use color, however, it is to stimulate the first sense directly rather than to enhance forms...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. Frank Lloyd Wright's curvilinear museum makes a fitting setting for the "endlessness" of Architect-Sculptor Frederick Kiesler, who turns a room into a work of art, links painted and sculpted units to form a labyrinth of surprises. In the main gallery is the 120-work Van Gogh collection lent by the painter's nephew. Both exhibitions through June...
...also contained in the innermost third of the ear, and working in far more mysterious ways, is a labyrinth of three nonhearing organs. The best known is a set of three semicircular canals. Minute changes in the flow and pressure of the fluid in these canals send the brain such signals as "You're turning to the right." Together, the canals make up what is probably the most important single "organ of equilibrium." But there are others...
Fool & School. Menotti moves through music like a troop ship avoiding U-boats-back and forth, in and out. He darts from failure (Labyrinth) to triumph (The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi) with great agility, but nothing he has written since 1955 can approach the genius of The Saint of Bleecker Street or even The Consul. Aside from one or two pleasant arias and one superb septet, there is very little in the Savage that suggests its composer's grand reputation. The music could have been written any time after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved...