Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer paintings of the Yellowstone, Kurd's testament of art is his way of lingering in an historic land that he must some day leave. It will linger, because Hurd sees beauty in a dust storm, challenge in the parched desert, and ghostly life in a crumbling shack, a broken...
Sherbet-Soft Colors. The problem is that Louis and Noland are pioneer explorers who need vast spaces to give their quest a sense of achievement. Even the best tapestry would be ridiculous as a doily, and their Cinemascopic canvases only achieve their effect when they engulf the viewer's vision. Their works often run from baseboard to ceiling and as wide as 18 ft. This large format must impose itself like a looming display of northern lights to achieve a scale that inflames the imagination...
HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...
Died. Alexander Meiklejohn, 92, pioneer of progressive education whose views were honored last year with the award of a Presidential Freedom Medal after early decades of rejection, notably in 1923, when he was forced to resign as Amherst College president for scorning standard disciplines in favor of social science and philosophy, and again in 1934, when his Experimental College at Wisconsin University (no grades or exams) was deemed infeasible and disbanded after seven years; of pneumonia; in Berkeley, Calif...
World Without Sun. Like a giant mollusk, the two-man diving saucer glides toward its parking garage on the floor of the Red Sea. Near by lies a five-room underwater house looking like a huge plumbing joint made of chubby cylinders. Here seven pioneer oceanauts lived and worked 35 ft. below the surface for a month during the summer of 1963. Life in and around their pelagic tank town is the subject of this eerie, colorful documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a successor to his awesome epic, The Silent World...