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Diabolical Ping. This fondness for movable sculpture qualified De Maria as a progenitor of the busy school of "Optional art," whose practitioners in vite viewers to play a sort of game by rearranging various objects in a composition to suit their own tastes. Avant-garde collectors began to buy De Ma ria's work. He was soon able to have them made up in steel rather than wood, and the games became more diabolical. His 1965 Instrument for La Monte Young looks like an innocent, slender metal box with a ball in it. But De Maria designed it with...
...detective story whose hero is a Parisian police inspector by that name, but so many maigrets have been published that the word is now used to describe mystery stories in general. In a stricter sense, a simenon is any novel except a maigret by Maigret's progenitor, Belgian-born Author Georges Simenon, 66. Simenon has produced a total of 74 maigrets and 126 simenons, which have appeared in 43 languages. Last week, with the publication in French of ll y a encore des noisetiers (There Are Still Hazel Bushes), Simenon's output under his own name reached...
...commitment to defend a beleaguered people from just such Communist tyranny. They have been unwilling to see the logical extensions of our commitments, and they foster the illusion that the Soviet Union has an interest in a peaceful settlement of the Viet Nam conflict, rather than being its progenitor...
...ways as significant a painting as Picasso's first major cubist painting, the 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon. A subtly seething, 8-ft.-high panorama, The Birth of the World, says Rubin, is "in retrospect the point of departure in modern painting," making Miró "the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." As is often true with Miró paintings, the title offers a clue. It is named for the way in which it was painted, for he re-enacted, so to speak, the first chapters of Genesis. At first, he covered his canvas with spots, drips and washes...
...best, the SFAC is the "debating society" that progenitor Stanley Hoffmann hoped it would never become. Three question-and-answer sessions--with President Pusey, John B. Fox Jr. '59 of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, and three SDS officials--have spiced up proceedings somewhat, but they have led to few important discoveries and no action. Committee work too has been largely ineffective and for the most part unenlightening...