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Transistorized TV. A portable all-transistor TV set that operates on home current or a self-contained rechargeable 12-volt battery was announced by Tokyo's Sony Corp. The set weighs only 13 Ibs., measures 6¼ in. by 8 in., with a rectangular screen running 8 in. diagonally. Sony will start selling the set in Japan in March, plans to export soon after. Japanese price: about...
There are abstractionists in the show as well. Their contributions to the print-making world have been slight, as the few works they show demonstrate. The best of the group is a reserved color lithograph by Andrew Stasik where a large mottled rectangular form slanted across the page elegantly balances the white of the paper surrounding it. As for the remaining few abstract pieces, they seem to be imitating avant-garde paintings while suffering from their inability to employ the tactile effects of pigment...
...Immediate reinforcement of learning" in another common phrase in education today, and it is the principle behind the spelling machines being used at the Franklin School in Lexington. the teacher pronounces a spelling word, and the student writes a reply to it in a space provided in a small rectangular box. Then, by shifting a lever, he exposes the correct answer. He can thus compare his answer promptly with the correct one, and the immediate reinforcement that takes place is reputed to be extremely valuable in the learning process. The spelling machine also has the virtue of allowing children...
...classicism of Mies Van Der Rohe. Rarely has such refinement, such tastefulness and simplicity been applied to what Frank Lloyd Wright derisively labeled, the "cereal box" style of architecture. Yet "cereal box" or no, most important modern buildings as well as those throughout the ages have used the rectangular solid as their basic form...
Reaching for a smaller tool, the sculptor pares the head into an elongated, rectangular appendage, no larger than his thumbnail, perhaps one-twentieth the size of the body instead of nature's less than one-seventh. He pushes his own head backward and thrusts the piece forward, studying it with a frown. Then he pokes two tiny indentations to make the eyes. One or more such small maquettes, produced between breakfast and a 1 o'clock lunch, may prove the seed for another of the large reclining women or mother figures to which the mind of Henry Moore...