Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Register, a young California artist, exhibited his PREFOTEMMS, short for pressure, form, temperature, electricity, movement and moisture-which are objects designed to be touched and felt. Since the hand can respond to all these sensations, says Register, why not give it the chance...
This elysian community actually exists. Its habitat is Africa's Kalahari Desert, a region so harsh and inhospitable that Western man would be hard put to eke out a living. But in that unforgiving neighborhood, the Bushmen, a golden-skinned, short-statured and cheerful people, have been living contentedly for thousands of years as hunter-gatherers subsisting on what nature provides without resort to agriculture. In Man the Hunter (Aldine Publishing Co., $6.95), a recent symposium of studies on primitive societies, Harvard Anthropologists Irven DeVore and Richard B. Lee note that "cultural Man has been on earth for some...
Noble Savages. Until recently, anthropology accepted the myopic judgment of Philosopher Thomas Hobbes that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Primitive peoples were construed as somewhat stupid living fossils, stalled in the path of progress. Today, though, experts seem more inclined to endorse Jean Jacques Rousseau's vision of the noble savage living in a Golden Age. And they go so far as to suggest that present civilization, despite its vast artistic and material advances, is in some ways no real improvement on the past. "It is still an open question whether...
...finally achieved fame and fortune of his own with the 1956 publication of the bestselling Island in the Sun; and Virginia Sorensen, 57, U.S. author of children's books (Curious Missie, Plain Girl, Miracles on Maple Hill); he for the third time, she for the second; in a short civil ceremony; in Gibraltar...
...author's writing is autobiographical. The Four-Gated City is the last of five novels in a Martha Quest series. The first four were set in an imaginary country named Zambesia (Lessing was raised in Rhodesia). They followed Martha through girlhood rebellion against baffled parents, two short bad marriages, immersion in the Communist Party during World War II, and a subsequent period of psychic drying...