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...well taken: too many papal pronouncements in the past have displayed a finger-wagging, negative tone. Perhaps because of John's injunction to think positive, work on the new encyclical, the eighth of his pontificate, went rapidly; the Pope was pleased with the first draft, had only to pencil in a few flourishes of his own. Last week...
...zanne shunned even still life as overly contrived nature and sought out the chaotic, uncultivated thickets and hillsides of Provence's virgin countryside. Among his most stunning works are views of the barren rock walls of an abandoned quarry that are so economically suggested by a few pencil lines and scattered smears of color that they presage modern abstractions. "Nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her." Cézanne wrote. Hour after hour, facing the warm vistas of Provence, his eye sounded the depths of nature, and, dipping his brush into his wet colors...
...Manufacturing Co. had its fast-selling Thermo-Fax, a dry method that uses heat from an infra-red lamp to form an image on specially coated papers. But the Xerox machine had a special appeal. It is a dry method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more successful in copying type than photographs. The 914 makes copies by projecting the image of the original document or object onto an electrostatically charged drum coated with a sensitive element called metallic selenium. The machine automatically sprinkles the drum with a black powder...
...strange word or concept. A copy of Malraux's Man's Fate lies ostentatiously on a mantel piece, preventing copies of the National Guardian and the Reporter from blowing away in the Georgia breeze. A picture of several field secretaries hangs on the wall, entitled in pencil: "Three who make revolution." Asked to explain that, a member of the office staff smiled: "Well, if we get Eastland beaten someday, that'll be a revolution...
...rubbing is made on the principle that schoolboys have been using for generations when they put paper over a coin and run a pencil over the surface to make a copy. Parker and Neal use large sheets of strong, pliable Japanese rice paper placed over the carving. A silk pad, dipped in black ink, is rubbed over the paper, and colored inks-coppery green or earthy brown-are added with other pads until the final effect is achieved. "Sometimes it takes hours-a whole day for a big one," says Neal. "We are often surprised to see how a rubbing...