Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms he defines in the Swedish-English volume he filtered out of TIME'S columns. Gullberg says: "Many of TIME'S own neologisms have come to stay in the language." We can't wait to see how a few of our recent coinages-non-book, Vietnik, op art-are minted into Swedish...
...Op Match feels that it has just scratched the surface in machine-age romance. Next step is a process called "RealTime" that will allow a customer on any campus anywhere to fill in his questionnaire on a keyboard teletype (perhaps in the Student Union?) hooked up to a central computer. Within minutes, the keyboard will automatically type out the names and telephone numbers of five soul mates within driv ing range. Instant Eros, it seems, will be here long before...
...Lang is one of the few modern artists who has found a way of reconciling technology and nature. Most of us allow the technological age to alienate us from aesthetic experience. We can't look at nature without seeing beer cans. "Pop" and "Op" art have dominated the art market for more than two years; but they don't present a new trend. Instead, they undercut traditional artistic values and divert out attention away from aesthetic experience as a defense against this discomforting sense of alienation...
...Op" experiments with the language of art and avoids all of the feeling. While fascinating mechanically it remains barren of emotion. It rebels against expressionism just as "Pop" -- with its emphasis upon hygienic reality and arbitrary selection of subject matter -- repudiates abstraction. This opposition to the expression of emotion and to the aesthetic selection of subject material is fundamentally anti...
Even by battlefield standards, the op- erating room was bizarre. The patient lay on a bed in a storage shed, separated from a three-man team of doctors by a 10-ft. wall of sandbags. A 4-in.by 10-in. hole had been cut in the wall at bed level, and a slightly larger win dow above it was fitted with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that...