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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese life and artistic traditions. While supporting himself by doing portraits of bar patrons along Tokyo's Ginza (at 280 apiece), he studied older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans do; we drink Coca-Cola just as they do. An artist...
Development of Capitol grounds is now under the control of the Architect of the Capitol, J. George Stewart, a former Republican Representative from Delaware (1935-7). Stewart develops, commissions, and executes his own plans for Capitol Hill. He is restricted only by his need to obtain Congressional approval for particular projects and by the influences of Congressional leaders--the House Speaker and the House and Senate Minority Leaders. The National Capital Planning Commission and the Fine Arts Commission are responsible for reviewing architectural and development plans elsewhere in D.C., but neither has any jurisdiction on Capitol Hill...
...Apparently the scar was lasting. Now, as building inspector for the rural Long Island town of Riverhead, N.Y., Munson, 53, has started a controversial campaign to make tree houses safer. Recently, after a Riverhead resident complained about an unsightly tree house, Munson began to require parents to obtain tree-house building permits, and issued a detailed set of specifications governing their construction: the houses must be no more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must be at least 42 in. high and floor boards at least 1 in. thick; the houses must be framed by two-by-fours...
...Strauss quotes the Indian, "now and then, here and there, makes stops. So the god has stopped. The sun, the moon, the stars, the winds, the trees are all where he has stopped." And from Bergson: "A great current of creative energy gushes forth through matter, to obtain from it what it can. At most points it is stopped; these stops are transmuted, in our eyes, into the appearances of many living species...
...measure of Moscow's desperation was the procedure that the Soviets used for summoning the General Assembly into emergency session. The procedure was first devised by the U.S. in 1950 in order to obtain U.N. authority to repel Communist aggression in Korea. At that time, the Russians damned as illegal what they themselves employed last week...