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Jenkins calls himself an "abstract phenomenist." When he has finished four or five paintings. "I have conversations with them, and they tell me what they want to be called-like Phenomena Outside Leap or Phenomena Curving Out or Phenomena Flint Lock." As James Jones said, it is sometimes difficult to know what the hell he is talking about. But his liquid abstractions can speak for themselves...
...Islam is as hostile as it is toward all other religions. The followers of Mohammed, said Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, submit to a "profoundly reactionary'' religion. The paper accused the Moslem clergy of not encouraging the cause of socialism, of not teaching their congregations "to study or investigate the phenomena of life, since this life, according to the Koran, is only ephemeral...
...most pervasive and mysterious phenomena in the universe is magnetism. As the scientist knows it, magnetism is the invisible pull that surrounds magnets, electric currents and even the electrons that circle the heart of the atom. Physicists do not wholly understand it, but they use it constantly. All the hundreds of thousands of electrical devices in the modern world have fields of magnetic force coursing through them. Any discovery that promises stronger or better controlled magnetism is immensely important to both practical industry and theoretical science. Such a discovery has just been made: four Bell Telephone Laboratories scientists* have found...
...Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and George DuMaurier--with extended glances at a few playwrights--Marlowe, Shakespeare and Cumberland. He supplements his close, detailed examination of a sensibly limited number of texts with some attention to medieval plays and ballads, many minor writers, and extra-literary phenomena such as social and political changes...
Sweeping down court on the attack, the University of Utah's heron-legged Bill ("The Hill") McGill is one of the basketball phenomena of the year-a 6-ft. 9-in., 215-lb. giant who can nevertheless dribble with the slick speed of a sawed-off backcourt man and get off every shot in the book, ranging from arching hooks to driving layups. Last week McGill's average was up to 28.7 points a game, the fourth highest in the nation. Shrugged the University of Denver's Coach Hoyt Brawner after losing to Utah...