Word: spectral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spectral Tapestries. But Bonnard was not concerned with psychology. "We can abstract beauty out of everything," he said. "A painting is a series of spots that are joined together and ultimately form the object over which the eye wanders without obstruction." Bonnard's spectral tapestries are a surface abstraction that invite the eye to play tourist. His imagery is so pleasing that few see the tricks of color and form that wrench the paintings away from realism into perceptual dreams...
...look for water on Venus had been frustrated by the masking effect of the abundant water vapor in the earth's lower atmosphere, but the 87,500-ft. level where the balloon-telescope took its pictures is above nearly all of the earth's vapor. Thus the spectral absorption that it photographed was almost entirely free from earthside confusion. Says Dr. Strong: "About 95% of the water that we saw was on Venus...
...died two years ago. Bloch's first New York exhibition in 37 years, which includes some of the Blaue Reiter works, reveals that the early, brooding Weltschmerz never left him. Alone and away from movements, however, he fashioned it into an individual theme. In paintings bathed with spectral moonlight, figures of darkness grope blindly through a lonely world, and harlequins act out a private grief in the eternal presence of death. Through...
...Singular Man, cleverly transposed into the idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart can never be touched by the grace of love, but there are others to offer it in all its forms...
When the station began in 1956 it had three spectral receivers covering the frequency ranges 100-800, 180-320, and 320-580 megacycles. Later three more receivers were added: 25-50, 50-100, and 2,000-4,000 megacycles. The six cathode ray screens are mounted one over another, with the highest frequencies at the bottom, and photographed with 70mm film which slowly winds past the display screens at the rate of 2.5 feet per hour. When the 100 foot rolls of film are later developed in Fort Davis, they give a permanent visual record of solar radio activity...