Word: spatialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slush from our shoes (we refuse to admit defeat by wearing boots), we pondered the 19th century's foolish sentimentality and unrealism. Snow's truer character lay revealed in Ukichiro Nakaya's authoritative "Snow Crystals." Besides the run-of-the-mill hexagonal-plane dendritic form crystals, there are spatial dendritic, pyramid and columnar, bullet, needle and graupel types, to mention a handful. Of especial interest was the Tsuzumi type, so named because of its resemblance to a Tsuzumi, a Japanese tom-tom. It is a hard crystal to describe, but picture a Tsuzumi and you nearly have...
...astronomer who wants to catch radio waves from space demands a quiet place for his radio telescope. In most locations, "random noise" from all kinds of electrical appliances interferes with or drowns out the ghostly spatial chirpings. Last week, after a one-year search, the National Science Foundation announced happily that it had awarded a contract to Associated Universities, Inc. for the construction of the nation's largest radio telescope in what proves to be the quietest town in the eastern U.S.-little (pop. 100) Green Bank, W. Va., 50 miles northeast of White Sulphur Springs...
Preliminary plans for the Green Bank telescope were drawn up nearly three years ago. The new $2,000,000 telescope will have a 140-ft. paraboloid antenna (second in size only to the 250-ft. antenna being constructed in England) which should allow it to pick up spatial wave lengths never before recorded. Specifically, the astronomers hope that they will be able to "see through" the great drifting clouds of hydrogen, which have previously occupied their attention, to more interesting clouds of the deuterium atom (heavy hydrogen...
...standardization of U.S. life resulted from the fact that every American in a fundamental sense is a surveyor: "America has really never yet, in any profound and essential way, been explored-it has rather been surveyed. The first problem of the people who settled in this immense and spatial continent was not to explore it but to 'lay it out'-to find the shortest distance between two points, to get the best and easiest grade across the continental divide . . . We have hunted always for the short cut, the practicable way . . . Well this is surveyordom-it is not exploring...
...Most of Jennerjahn's other paintings consider the canvas as a plane and the paint applied to it also a flat surface. The overriding concern is the relation of colors and lines in the plane. Like Mondrian, Jennerjahn aims at purity through the reduction of means. The curved line, spatial illusions, tricks of the brush are all given up. Design rather than texture is the keynote...