Word: linearity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is remarkable about Louis' canvases is their simplicity. They are devoid of any recognizable form; color is forced to carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
McLuhan has a sense of humor that is somewhat zany and heavy-handed, and he has a prose style to match.Understanding Media violates many of the traditions of linear prose, and it need not be read from beginning to end. McLuhan makes every page stand on its own and the pages can be read in almost random order. But to accomplish this he is forced to repeat again and again his basic principles. The aphorisms, particularly "the medium is the message," are recited with such frequency that they become completely unchallengeable. The material presented, however, is sufficiently interesting that this...
...device differs from SLAC and the others in its ability to fire electrons continuously. In previous linear accelerators, the high-frequency radio waves used to accelerate electrons through the copper tube could quickly produce high temperatures by generating electric currents in the walls of the tube. To prevent serious heat damage, the electrons were fired in very short bursts. Stanford's SLAC is designed to fire electrons in millionth-of-a-second bursts separated by intervals of a thousandth of a second...
...covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...Expressways tend to divide communities when they cut through them," said Mayor Lindsay, speaking of the Brooklyn project. "But here, a linear city would be a unifying factor instead." The same could as easily be said of the plan to cover over the Park Avenue tracks. Both designs suggest that, in the future, the right side of the tracks to live on will be in one direction...