Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a Paris art dealer agree raised the chilling probability that it is true. As he closed down his Paris gallery permanently on July 1, Daniel Cordier circulated a letter that scathingly measured Paris' decline. "The dimensions of this city," he wrote, "are not compatible with the scale of modern civilization; it has become a holiday resort, a place of entertainment, and is becoming less and less a center of creative activity. In order to interpret our period, an artist has to be familiar with its realities, its sensibility. These can be felt better and more intensely...
Giacometti, from Cezanne to Soutine, from an early Picasso to the latest Henry Moore, on such a scale that no museum or private collection in the world can match it. An enormous black two-story hall houses a kind of cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Absurd Berlin Diary of Emilio Vedova, with collapsible hinged parts jagging out in a variety of Gothic shapes. Three Paintings in Space by Ernst Wilhelm Nay are obliquely suspended from the ceiling of an otherwise entirely empty hall...
...Broadway set designers and one Broadway lighting designer were recently given a $75,800 Ford Foundation grant to develop a mobile theater similar to Papp's on an even more compact scale-that is, on one truck only. The foundation is trying to help the State Department find a way to present American theater from town to town anywhere in the world. Arena stage, dressing rooms, props, generators, lights -everything but the emotion-would roll in one unit...
Updating computer techniques that were tried out on a small scale by the Kennedy forces in 1960, Mad and Dev set out to win the G.O.P. nomination for someone who can beat Lyndon Johnson...
...pseudo science at work: "What do we know about the social or psychic energies that develop by electric fusion or implosion when literate individuals are suddenly gripped by an electromagnetic field, such as occurs in the new Common Market pressure in Europe?" Or: "Had TV occurred on a large scale during Hitler's reign, he would have vanished quickly...