Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with something only half formed," he says, waving his hands. "I believe that in painting, you just have to step...
...first, Peking's propaganda line on Laos had been curiously restrained-presumably because Chairman Mao Tse-tung and all the top leaders have been away from Peking, hashing over their domestic difficulties at a secret conclave in the provinces. (Best guess as to their meeting place: the northwestern Chinese city of Sian, which fortnight ago received an otherwise inexplicable visit from North Viet Nam's goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh.) Last week, as if to make up for lost time, Red China's Foreign Ministry burst out with implied threats reminiscent of those that preceded...
...paintings are "touched" (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich's Ethnographical Museum last week hung copies of a much older and almost unknown aboriginal art. discovered by the museum director, Andreas Lommel, in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia. Smaller, more naturalistic and far more elegant than Wondjina art, they date back at least a thousand years...
...campus in northern New Jersey, 29 high school seniors learned about semiconductors by building their own transistor radios. At the University of California at Los Angeles, 20 straight-A secondary-school students filled notebooks with the theory of computers as expounded by visiting Professor Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener himself. At Northwestern's engineering labs in Evanston, 96 boys and girls studied why quicksand becomes quick, and found out the most economical way of sifting and smelting a pile of copper...
...applicants, had a median IQ of 138), the seniors get no credit, in some cases not even exams. But the pace is such that Cooper Union President Edwin S. Burdell, a sociologist, walked out of a class last fortnight, saying: "It's over my head." Said Northwestern's lanky Timothy Brown, 16, who comes from Lexington, Neb.: "I only wish I could be five people so I could take it all in." The thing all the youngsters like best is the grown-up atmosphere in the labs. "It's not like high school, where the teachers...