Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This action is not a "demonstration." in the manner of a hunger-strike; it is (in intent at least) a preventative, inhibitory even revolutionary act, in the manner of a labor strike. It is a step toward the strangling of the source of labor with which the armed forces produce their product (label it as you wish...
Kuchel's speech probably changed no minds; few speeches on Viet Nam ever do. But it did prompt Morton and Cooper to "clarify" their own demands for a bombing halt by explaining that they would not approve of such a step if it left U.S. servicemen in jeopardy...
Gallerygoers at this week's sculpture show in Washington's Corcoran Gallery will have no trouble finding the exhibit. Once they step inside the skylighted atrium they will be in it, surrounded by it, and all but overwhelmed by it. Rising around them on spiky legs is an asymmetric network of 43 piers, a black behemoth, 45 ft. long, 33 ft. wide and 22 ft. high. Its thrusting structure wars against the gallery's Doric columns, seemingly pushing them aside to create its own hypnotic environment like some underwater coral growth...
...Barnett Newman, 62, better known as an abstract expressionist, has recently attracted attention with his sculpture. His 26-foot-high Broken Obelisk, now standing outside the Seagram Building, was built at the Lippincott Environmental Arts fabrication plant in North Haven, Conn. Newman supervised each step of the process, had to draw a sloping line across the top of the inverted obelisk to show workmen exactly where to cut. Then the base was "flame cut"-i.e., burned with a cutting torch, in order to leave a grainy pattern of vertical lines...
...word should be said about the observers and guests just mentioned, one or another of whom seem to have been present at every step of Eisenbud's Denver investigations of Serios. They consist of local physicians, professors from Denver area colleges and universities, including several from the University of Colorado Medical Center, and at least one expert in photography and optics, Mr. Billie Wheeler, the head of the Center's Department of Audio-Visual Education. Eisenbud asserts that all of them have signed statements attesting to the physical events his book describes, and further stating that after participating...