Word: plass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibition comprises the 166-piece collection of a wealthy Philadelphia engineer named Webster Plass (who died last year) and his widow Margaret. Africanist William Fagg supplied a foreword to the exhibition catalogue that could also be taken as a friendly warning to visitors. To see the show clearly, said Fagg, it is necessary to forget all about naturalism, which sprang from Greek art and survived in the photographic age. "African art is an art not of analysis but of synthesis: the artist does not begin from the natural form of, say, the human body ... He begins from a germinal concept...
This spreading envelope of gas around the earth, says Johns Hopkins Physicist Gilbert N. Plass, serves as a great greenhouse. Transparent to the radiant heat from the sun, it blocks the longer wave lengths of heat that bounce back from the earth. At its present rate of increase, says Plass, the CO ² in the atmosphere will raise the earth's average temperature 1.5° Fahrenheit every 100 years...
After thousands of years, says Professor Plass, plants and the slow-moving seas will absorb most of the excess CO ² . But for centuries to come, if man's industrial growth continues, the earth's climate will continue to grow warmer...