Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landscapes, Arbres Formant La Voute (1906) and Citerne au Parc du Chateau Noir (1895-1900),--in these water-colors the broken planes and volumes show the new dimension of time which the "Grandfather of Cubism" tentatively proposed as an extension of the three-dimensional perspective space system perfected by the Renaissance and exploited into trompel'oeil mediocrity by the Academics of the 19th century. Also impressive among the Cezanne works in the first floor gallery, is the painting Le Tholonet (1906) in which the unfinished canvas at the bottom left serves as a perhaps unintentional means towards a dynamic impulsion...
...Modigliani is a famous portrait of an emaciated Jean Cocteau, a few basic colors and abstracted elements being used to establish space and volume with thin painting in places subtly suggesting further possibilities for the superimposition of planes...
...population explosion, earth scientists have rediscovered the sea, remember that the ocean contains the bulk of the earth's life, and that it is probably capable of producing more food than all of the earth's land. Says one oceanographer: "The ocean represents an inner space as important as outer space, but different...
...oceans may have already been tried inadvertently. The temperature of the earth's surface depends to a considerable extent on the atmosphere's small content of carbon dioxide (about .03%), which permits short-wave sunlight to pass but impedes the escape of longer heat waves into space -the so-called '"greenhouse" effect. Since 1860 modern man's furnaces and auto exhausts have spewed out 360 billion tons of carbon dioxide. Warns Revelle: "By 2005 we will have added to the atmosphere some 1,700 billion tons of carbon dioxide-about 70% of the amount now present...
...controlled jet expressways from New York to Califor nia and from Florida to Gander by persuading the Air Force to let FAA men use its radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...