Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Object of the sanctions was Ian Smith's white-supremacist regime in Rhodesia, which has been deplored as an international renegade ever since it broke away from British rule 13 months ago. By a vote of 11 to 0-with four abstentions-the council declared an international embargo on 90% of Rhodesia's exports, forbade the U.N.'s 122-member nations to sell oil, arms, motor vehicles or airplanes to the rebel territory or to provide it with any form of "financial or other economic...
...astronomers could not explain either its dimness or its complex spectrum. Now, as they have long suspected, they have learned that there is much more to the obscure star than meets the eye. In an article in Nature, Astrophysicist Frank Low, 33, and Rice University Graduate Student Bruce Smith, 23, report that R Monocerotis (R designates the star; Monocerotis is Latin for uni corn) may well be a vigorous young star surrounded by the beginnings of a planetary system...
...wave lengths. He found that the energy produced was much greater than earlier observations had indicated (about 870 times that of the sun), and the star was radiating with inexplicable intensity at the longest wave lengths. On the theory that something was obscuring the visible light, Low asked Smith to help work out a mathematical model of a bright, hot star that was surrounded by a thick blanket of gas and dust...
...Nothingness Isn't Negative." Two artists who master the minimum: Tony Smith, 54, whose 11-ft.-high Amaryllis is a black steel construction that bends like the Japanese art of origami, or paper folding, and Robert Smithson, 28, whose Alogon, also of black steel, cantilevers from the wall like a sawtooth set of staggered boxes. Their works are as unsettling as a spastic octopus sculpted by Michelangelo might have been...
Modular, faintly suggestive of children's blocks, Smith's and Smithson's sculptures seem like statements in the vocabulary of boxy, urban housing. Yet in accentuating the negative, they make symbolism out of skeletal form. "Art needs more thought and less manual dexterity," says Smithson. "Nothingness isn't negative-the drive to reach the moon is a preoccupation with desolate nothingness. But it's involved with the idea of exploration." Their search is to find poetry in emptiness...