Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stella's work attracted attention almost immediately because it took abstraction one measurable step farther along the path toward pure form. The generation of Pollock and Kline had eliminated the figure; their canvases derived impact and emotion from the visible signs of struggle left by the painter's drips, splashes and violent brush marks. The "color field" painters of the 1950s, led by the late Morris Louis, eliminated the mark of the painter's hand, but their veils of color floating within the rectangle of a canvas aimed at evoking a haunting, lyric sense of other-worldly...
...nation's major Jewish organizations last week urged American Judaism to step up communications with both Christianity and the Negro ghettos. There was a real point to the exhortations, issued by Conservatism's United Synagogue of America and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, principal voice of Reform Judaism. Of late, there has been a marked deterioration in Jewish relations with white churches and black communities...
...fact, the carnage was only the first step in a plan to make St. James more beautiful than ever. Most of the trees cut down were soft maples-shortlived, brittle and prone to wind and ice damage. Many of them were already diseased and dying. Using $500,000 from the James Foundation, which was established in 1938 by the will of Lucy Wortham James, great-granddaughter of pioneering Missouri Ironmaker Thomas James, the town decided to tear out the old trees and begin replacing them with hardier fast-growing holly, sweet gum and flowering crab...
...First Step. Much to their dismay, the airlines have discovered that many a businessman who had been counted on to pay full fare has learned to juggle his travel to take advantage of the cut-rate schedules. TWA figures that $20 million worth of business that otherwise would have produced full fares will be diverted to discount fares this year, adding only $16.7 million to revenues. "In this respect, we've been our own worst enemies," says Executive Vice President G. Ray Woody of National Airlines. Despite a 17% rise in total operating revenues, the nation's eleven...
...American, in addition to seeking to restrict the hours and days their "Discover America" fares may be used, proposed to abolish their $200 excursion fare for transcontinental round trips and get the price back to $217. United President George Keck describes such moves as "a logical first step" toward raising airline profits. This amounted to a broad hint that next year the carriers may ask for a general fare increase, their first since...