Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Hoyte. The project is the dream of a studious British engineer named John Hoyte, who at 26 is three years younger than Hannibal was at the time of his invasion. Hoyte became a Hanniphile in 1955 while studying at Cambridge. In 1956 he led a reconnaissance group into the Alps to scout various possible routes, settled on Clapier pass because it fitted most of the meager clues left by the historians. Ancient accounts say Hannibal camped two days at the summit: the summit at Clapier pass is flat enough and big enough to hold a Hannibal-sized army...
...rabbi also laid the cornerstones for several major Hasidic projects in Israel, including a new five-story rabbinical-study center, a new housing project near Tel Aviv, an old people's home. Perhaps his most dramatic operation concerns Tel Aviv's long-embattled public swimming pool, which the Hasidim consider an outrage because it permits mixed bathing. Teitelbaum and his backers are trying to buy the pool from the two collectives that own it, are reported ready to offer $140,000. If the offer is turned down, Teitelbaum will order mass demonstrations by his followers. Says...
...color project, Shoriki has lined up a regular schedule of baseball games and judo, has signed the taped Perry Como show for a year. With such attractions, he figures that demand will soon drive the price of color receivers down far enough to fit the budget of the average televiewer, is planning to set up color studios all over Southeast Asia. Says Shoriki : "I want Japan to be the first country in the world to have full-scale color TV in operation. I want Japan to beat...
...agonized nude entitled Crying Machine, Baskin by a recumbent sculpture suggestive of a fire victim, and Kearns by a powerful drawing of children watching an auto accident. The Kearns has Spanish intensity, plus the dark, gritty air of a Pennsylvania mining town. All three artists, Rodman says, "project anguish over the human predicament...
...these are insiders, who are the outsiders and what do they project? Rodman thinks that most abstract artists ride outside and project precious little. "The whole emphasis in art for the past hundred years," he maintains, "has been as much against society as possible. The critics say, 'This is art,' and so the public accepts it. The insider is trying to return to the aim of art in ages past; he is portraying the raw thing-not mere elegance or mere social concepts either. He is totally unconcerned with what kind of figure he cuts in the arena...