Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most fruitful years of study under Abstract Sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris. A consummate technician, Noguchi has variously turned his hand to fashionable portrait busts, abstract stone sculptures cut with a diamond saw, furniture, paper lanterns and stage sets. Since 1950 he has spent half of his time in Japan (where he married Screen Star Yoshiko Yamaguchi), concentrated on deliberately crude ceramic sculptures molded from the native earth, and modeled partly on prehistoric Japanese idols. The ceramics in last week's show were mainly semi-abstractions of figures and faces. They looked lumpish and exuberant at once-like...
...about 2,000 years now," said Dulles, "there has been a figure in mythology which symbolizes tragic futility. That was Sisyphus, who, according to the Greek story, was given the task of rolling a great stone up to the top of a hill. Each time when, after great struggle and sweating, the stone was just at the brow of the hill, some evil force manifested itself and pushed the stone down. So poor Sisyphus had to start his task over again. I suspect that for the next 2,000 years the story of Sisyphus will be forgotten, when generation after...
...centuries the Scots have been forced to be proud of their disadvantages -they have so many of them. There is their climate, whose rains make stone walls sweat with cold damp, and whose glinting sunlight fleetingly transforms forbidding rocks into some of the world's loveliest scenery. There are the English, who keep trying to treat Scotland as a conquered province instead of a proud nation. There is the grudging Scottish soil, whose bleak austerity breeds, by sheer force of survival, hardy sheep bearing wool that makes the world's finest tweeds. There is the Scottish economy, founded...
...only meteorite known to have hit a human (TIME, Dec. 13) is back in Alabama, after brief sequestering by the Air Force. The woman it bruised, Mrs. Hulitt Hodges of Sylacauga, is feeling much better, and so is her husband. "Lord have mercy" he cried, when the black stone came home. "Let me put my hands on that thing." But he has not yet sold it, as he hopes to, for more than its weight in gold...
...same time the Corporation elected four new members to the group. They are Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and an expert on juvenile delinquency; Dana M. Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education; Cora A. DuBois, Stone-Radcliffe Professor Anthropology; and Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services. Dean Leighton, Dean Bender, and Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, were all reappointed to the group...