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...Toward a New Abstraction," with 47 works by nine of these artists. At first glance, the hard-edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children of the tantrum-prone abstract expressionists have turned out to be a tight-lipped...
...chance of a detached retina. Wain escaped war service and found at Oxford a chance to know himself and the world better. His Oxford life is one of the best stories of an education ever told, be cause he was one of the few for whom education itself is a crucial experience. He conveys this by sketching the characters of others-a theologian talking to a poet in a pub, a dour Clydesider who became a monk, the tutor C. S. Lewis and that really odd ball of erudition, the madly neurotic Jewish poet and scholar "Eddie" Meyerstein...
...Wright-Patterson Air Force Base last week, Radio Corp. of America demonstrated a reasonable facsimile. RCA's artificial eye is a heavy box, 40 in. by 40 in., its end studded with 1,600 small light detectors that simulate the light-sensitive cells of a frog's retina. Behind the detectors are layers of electronic components that serve as frog nerve cells. They are interconnected in such a way that they report to the "brain," a smaller light-studded panel, only those objects that a frog would see. If a disk held in front of the large...
...Doctor. Then one morning in 1947, at the age of 51, Dirksen's booming political career suddenly quieted. He awoke with "cobwebs" before him, and they would not be brushed away. Doctors called it chorioretinitis-inflammation in the retina of his right eye. Medication did little good, and one physician recommended removal of the eye. Dirksen decided to seek further consultations at Johns Hopkins Hospital. On the train, Dirksen recalls, "I got down on my knees and uttered my prayers, whether blindness would be my lot." At Johns Hopkins, the specialist also urged removal...
...probably followed by enormous and rapidly swelling fireballs. They will dazzle the naked eye like glimpses of the sun, doing no permanent damage; but the AEC warns that it will be extremely dangerous to look at the lofty explosions with binoculars or telescopes. Concentrated on the eye's retina, the light will be strong enough to cook a fair-sized blind spot...