Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright, waxing moon rode through the racing cumulus clouds above Florida's Cape Canaveral. At the floodlit launching pad, a gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...told an American friend, adding: "In rough translation, that means, 'Thank God, you finally went and did it.' " The British press, most of which had hooted in cheery derision at the flop of the Navy's Project Vanguard, now cheered. Wrote the London Express: "The moon's signal is a high-pitched, continuous wheeee. And that can be translated as, 'Cheer up, America. We're in the heavens, all's right with the world...
...would inevitably have a Sputnik of its own before long. "We are waiting for it," he said. "There will be a community of Sputniks." In Rome, the Communist daily Paese Sera indicated it had noted Khrushchev's remarks and filed them away for future guidance. "The American baby moon," the paper said, "is now wheeling in the sky along with Sputnik II. We are sure Sputnik II has welcomed its young companion, saying: 'You are small, but you will grow.' Not even John Foster Dulles can keep the American baby moon from coexisting with Sputnik...
Often there in her shadowy world is the woman who created it, Sculptress Louise Nevelson, 57. Wrapped in a heavy black wool coat, she waves a nervous hand at the shapes and explains: "This is the universe, the stars, the moon-and you and I, everyone." (The one in the show's title refers to the viewer.) Pointing to a wall of narrow and squat open boxes rhythmically jammed with wood bits of all shapes, she says: "This is Cathedral in the Sky, man's temple to man. And over there is the Moon Dial, the clocking...
...Nevelson shows are always built around a single theme-last year it was The Forest, the year before Royal Voyage, this year Moon. "I never know my next move," she says, "I just let it happen. When I let my inner vision guide my hands, there are no errors." Said Paris Abstractionist Pierre Soulages of her current show: "It is not only sculpture, it is a whole world." And certainly Louise Nevelson's world is in no way trite or ordinary...