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Rustling Grain. For so dramatic a piece, the golden burst had a prosaic beginning : Bertoia was simply trying to find a way of making metal wires spring from a core, like petals from a flower or rays from the sun. In other pieces Bertoia clusters metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Song-&-Dance Man | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...some 40 years one of the most prosaic of political pundits, Columnist David Lawrence, 72, unaccountably burst into verse last week in his back-page editorial in U.S. News and World Report. Entitled "A World United?" and preaching peace through brotherhood, the seven-stanza work by Poet Lawrence concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1961 | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camarāo. Western observers hastily advised that world reaction might be derisive, and Cameroun settled for a prosaic tricolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: NEW FLAGS OF 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...United States was rocked by the U-2 incident, this summer Richard Nixon was accorded the Republican Presidential nomination, and less than a week ago Dean Bundy announced the possibility of another rise in Harvard's tuition.... And yet none of these dismaying events is more than a prosaic prelude to the shocking deed perpetrated the day before yesterday in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOCKING DEED | 10/21/1960 | See Source »

Occasionally they receive a letter from their soldier nephew, Cliff, whom they had raised since he was orphaned as a child. But Cliff is as emotionally tongue-tied as his aunt and uncle: his prosaic letters might as well be coming from nearby Cincinnati instead of distant, mysterious, embattled Korea. Then the comfortable, cozy pattern of the days is shattered by a War Department telegram reporting Cliff missing in action. Alma passionately insists Cliff is alive and will return; she decides to write an account of his life. "It would be a kind of family thing." she tells her brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ohio Nights | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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