Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCRAP IRONY (127 pp.)-Felicia Lamporf-Houghton Mifflin...
When Gonzalez died in 1942, the world's scrap iron was as precious as its guns. It was not until war's end that sculptors in metal were free to trace his pioneer steps. Now rods, clinkers, nuts and bolts have been fused and forged into the new nature of sculpture, and in its open and bristling aerial forms, there is everywhere homage to Gonzalez...
Calder is perhaps the most at home with jewelry. His strange, twisted wire brooches and earrings are intriguing parallels to his spinning mobiles, and his spiky, formidable necklaces are often wrought from scrap iron. His best work, though, is in hammered silver. American Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz shows a gold-plated necklet cast with an antique turquoise...
Improbable though his story seems, a Stone Age man, practically untouched by modern civilization, was alive in the U.S. only 50 years ago. When he stumbled out of the brush near Oroville in northern California one August morning in 1911, he was naked except for a scrap of canvas thrown over his shoulders. Weak and emaciated, he spoke not a word of English or any other known language. It was days before anyone could communicate with him and learn who he was. Now, half a century later, a new book, Ishi in Two Worlds, by Historian Theodora Kroeber (University...
...fighter and the winged Snark, the nation's first intercontinental missile, which was exploding so regularly that birdmen joked wryly about "the Snark-infested waters off Cape Canaveral." Time and again, Air Force procurement officers threatened to cancel the Snark if it failed just once more, and to scrap the F89 if it turned up just one more...