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This year the results are often tonic, enjoyable and full of hope. Some shoots of real vitality have been emerging from the conceptual rubble of late modernism. Although there is nostalgia for the arid pieties of yesteryear-Peter Lodato's two blank 11-ft.-high rectangles at the Whitney, for instance-the general tone is unsystematic, quirkish and opposed to movements. So much so, indeed, that curatorial bias gets in the way. No one is likely to miss minimal art, but the total exclusion of color-field painting reflects as much bigotry as its absolute dominance did ten years...
...theoretical physicist in California named Vincent LoDato, 32, does not dabble in science fiction. But now, as a result of some factually scientific writing of his own, he has suddenly found himself in a position reminiscent of Author Cartmill's three decades ago. LoDato's troubles began in February when he was laid off from the Rand Corp. after money was withdrawn from the environmental project he was assigned to. Setting up shop in his Santa Monica, Calif., home, he turned to a pet project and early this summer finally completed some complex calculations on possible means...
...first, the commission's response seemed favorable. Visited by three AEC officials who wanted to learn more about his work, LoDato says, he was admiringly told: "You've done what it cost the Government hundreds of thousands of dollars to do." Then, about three weeks later, the AEC abruptly changed its tune. Invoking secrecy rules known as "Sigma One," which cover weapons-related theoretical work, the commission's division of classification told LoDato that his 15-page proposal had been classified as "secret/restricted data." Subsequently, he says, AEC officials ordered him not to write down anything else...
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