Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prophet ("I had only been uncollected odds and ends," said G.B.S. "Henderson collected me"). Henderson also wrote one of the first full-length biographies of Mark Twain, a 500,000-word history of his state, and a recondite mathematics treatise, "The Derivation of the Brianchon Configuration for Two Spatial Point-Triads." Once, two universities (Oklahoma and Tulsa) offered him presidencies in the course of a single evening. Moronic Camels. Despite such offers, Archibald Henderson seldom left Chapel Hill for long. Neighbors became accustomed to "The Genius," bounding down to the post office in the morning, or sitting on his porch...
...buildings likewise are kept fairly low. Horizontal lines predominate, and the low flat roofs minimize the size of the buildings as well as provide the most practical kind of covering, adding to the effect of landscaping and the spatial layout...
Geography is important. Our recent World War demonstrated that to this generation. Geography as a science of the world's spatial relationships and patterns of human development is essential to the "Education for Citizenship" that many modern educators expound as the true aim of the Liberal Arts College...
...says Coale, "it is difficult to outline measures which would reduce deaths below seven or eight figures if x thousand bombs were delivered on the most densely populated areas of the United States." There should be deep, underground shelters, specially designed buildings, protected food stocks. Eventually, the "concentrated spatial pattern of industrial nations" should be readjusted. But that is only another delay: "... Any readjustment may well be overcome by increases in the number and effectiveness of the atomic bombs in the arsenals of the world...
...science-inspired visualizations enlivened Manhattan's super-surrealistic Art-of-this-Century gallery. Executed in brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter Paalen's idea of "pure spatial tensions" and "inner tensions of landscapes" (basi cally whorls and spirals). The net result: "plastic cosmogony" - which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body." Wolfgang Paalen not only splashes...