Word: octets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today Richard Buckminster Fuller, 68, of Carbondale, Ill. - whose college career never got beyond his freshman midyears-is famous for houses that fly and bathrooms without water, for cars and maps and ways of living bearing the mysterious word "Dymaxion," for things called "octet trusses," "synergetics" and "tensegrity." But he is best known of all for his massive mid-century breakthrough known as the "geodesic dome...
...beams." Divining that the compression and tension factors can be separated in any structure, he has designed a "tensegrity mast" that seems to be held up by nothing at all. But Fuller insists that with this mast combined with his frame of tetrahedron-octahedron combinations which he calls the "octet truss," he could bridge the Grand Canyon itself...
Among the first attempts to make order out of this chaos was Caltech Physicist Murray Gell-Mann's theory, "The Eight-Fold Way." Gell-Mann lumped the known resonances together in orderly octets; their snowflake-like symmetries left slots for particles that were still unknown. But one octet seemed out of kilter. Unless, predicted Gell-Mann, a particle designated the phi-meson was found...
...Staying one step ahead of his critics. Senior Statesman Cage is already proclaiming aleatory music passe -he prefers to think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...
...invited free of charge, and lunches may be brought. Each Wednesday the selection is related to a work of art. Next week: Mozard, Cost fan tutte; Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (Wed.); Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes by Paul Klee (Wed.): Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete; and Schubert's Octet...