Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stella's work attracted attention almost immediately because it took abstraction one measurable step farther along the path toward pure form. The generation of Pollock and Kline had eliminated the figure; their canvases derived impact and emotion from the visible signs of struggle left by the painter's drips, splashes and violent brush marks. The "color field" painters of the 1950s, led by the late Morris Louis, eliminated the mark of the painter's hand, but their veils of color floating within the rectangle of a canvas aimed at evoking a haunting, lyric sense of other-worldly...
...student was critical of the firemen's methods. "All they had to do was ask Fritz [Rau, the House Superintendent] for the key to the room," he said. "Instead, they trampled over everything that lay in their path...
Interception Path. During its third orbit, the S-IVB refired its engine, increasing its speed to nearly 23,400 m.p.h. and thrusting farther away from the earth. After the S-IVB was separated and the Apollo service-module engine fired briefly, placing Apollo into an orbit with an apogee of 11,200 miles and a perigee of negative 50 miles-meaning that the craft's path would intercept the earth...
Smithies rejected the notion that Harvard had taken any but the straighet-and-neutral path toward the Vietnam war. "I certainly would say Harvard hasn't taken an active role in supporting the war," he said. "I don't think you can live in this world without some degree of complicity...
...Faculty meeting. That was not Pusey's intent. At the press conference after the meeting, Dean Ford made it clear that even without a vote the Administration felt committed to establish a student-Faculty group of some kind. What had been preserved by Pusey's action was not a path for avoiding action, but rather a maximum of flexibility in setting up the committee...