Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wagons, which Smith undertook at the end of his life, have a more playful quality than most of his previous sculptures. The wheels and the lightness of the forms add a greater sensation of motion. But these pieces also attempt to maintain the planar illusion of Smith's previous sculpture. Wagon I teases the viewer with a very full three dimensional, melonlike form in the center of the composition which is made to appear flat by a combination of the planar surfaces of the wheels, the linear effect of the bar on which the forms rests, and the strong effect...
...politics. He was an administrator, a professional -- something of a George Washington in that his success in the pre-Loeb era brought him to a position of authority where he could leave the bickering to his juniors. In some ways this proved a good thing. Chapman was able to maintain the respect of both his fellow faculty members and the undergraduate community. But the price of this respect was considerable: answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, Chapman was forced to adopt conciliatory rather than positive positions...
...candidates who lose tomorrow will have to try and maintain the loyalties of their workers and allies for three years or forget about seeking state office. The end of the biennial delegates' votes fight may also mean the end of publicity by political columnists. The state's political writers are expected, out of a want for subject matter, to cover the General Court more closely (now there is not even one full-time correspondent attached to the state senate), and a whole new flock of political personalities may emerge crowding the officeless politicians from the center of public attention...
...Error. In a country that is short on police and long on curbs against interrogation, better scientific crime detection seems an absolute necessity-all of which encourages makers of polygraphs, which cost anywhere from $675 to $2,650. Polygraph theorists maintain that lying causes physical reactions detectable by a trained polygrapher. While he asks questions, ranging from the pertinent to the impertinent, the gadget graphically records the subject's pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and perspiration flow. The obvious weakness is not the machine but the man who interprets it. One study found that a good polygrapher is wrong three...
...M.I.T.'s radar-producing Radiation Laboratory in World War II, says that Caltech is now trying to strengthen its engineering and M.I.T. is building its science departments so that "we have steadily become more like one another." He is smoothly confident, however, that Caltech will be able "to maintain a nonindustrial, unhurried, even nonmetropolitan atmosphere of informality and intimacy...