Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bidding at Christie's auction house in London started at $250,000 and went up by $50,000 leaps. Finally, the auctioneer called "Sold!" For $1,159,200, Los Angeles Industrialist and Art Collector Norton Simon had acquired a self-portrait made when Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was in his early 30s. Steep though it was, the price was a record for neither Rembrandt nor Norton Simon. The collector has already spent $2,200,000 for a portrait of the artist's son and an un disclosed sum for one of Rembrandt's common-law wife. Said...
...these techniques have shown in the mental hospital justifies their being tried out in every other area." In his more whimsical moments, Azrin likes to think that behavior therapy will eventually follow the paradigm of progress once proposed by Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the first successful electric automobile self-starter. "First they tell you you're wrong, and they can prove it," said Kettering. "Then they tell you you're right, but it's not important. Then they tell you it's important, but they've known it for years...
...came out of his self-styled retirement only once, in 1938, to construct a valise containing each of his important works in miniature, really a portable Duchamp museum. He kept a studio, but visitors hunting for some clue that the aging enfant terrible was working again searched in vain. Duchamp died last October, having created little except for occasional graphics, a few objects and the inevitable puns he uttered, in almost 30 years...
...martyrs out of third-rate writers in no danger of going to the stake." A compelling answer to this argument is that third-rate or even tenth-rate writers must be protected if first-rate writers are to be free. Banning books and prosecuting theater owners can actually be self-defeating, since they lend false glamour to the forbidden and the illicit. I Am Curious (Yellow) would in all likelihood not have become a vastly profitable movie if it had not first been the subject of a well-publicized prosecution by the U.S. Court of Appeals. In Sweden, where movies...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are supplemented by, merged into or replaced by a great One Religion, sectarianism will continue to divide the world and communities into self-centered groups, isolate peoples, use sectarian prejudices for political advantage, and stimulate conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space...