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Cornell's boxes are not random, and they have an exquisitely ordered syntax. But Cornell rarely supplied a narrative. We do not know what the green Amazonian parrot is doing in Untitled (Parrot Habitat), 1956-57, sitting there in a box lined with mirrors and scraps of print; we have no idea what the white ball and the metal hoops mean to it. But it could not matter less, for these precise, mild, irrational encounters remain the stuff of poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Symbolist Poet | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...movement of TIME stories from writers to senior editors to the managing editor to researchers, logging, typing, reading and routing stories. At week's end a TIME story may have been retyped as many as eight times. Copy-and proofreaders check for errors in spelling, punctuation and syntax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 26, 1976 | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

Today Hankchampion looks less aggressive than it did 15 years ago. It still transmits an enormous sense of energy; what counts is the vigor of the form, the expansive thrust of its members driving into space. But this syntax of angles, which makes his best sculptures change so compellingly and unpredictably when one walks around them, had to wait. It would be five years before Di Suvero could work regularly on this scale again. In March 1960 he was nearly killed in an elevator accident. His back and left leg were broken, and the doctors said that he would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Energy as Delight | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Cooperstown, N.Y. From the start Stengel had the gift that Merlin enjoyed in The Once and Future King: he began decrepit and grew younger. The man who was too stiff to play at 35 was loose enough to manage in the majors and minors, learning, listening, coining the tortured syntax that would soon be labeled Stengelese. He perpetually refused to recognize players by name, only as "my big guy" or "that fella on first"; he told nonstop, outrageous stories and then claimed, "You could look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amazin' | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...professional linguists lies the fact that they too aim to demystify something that Percy would like to see as great and irreducible. He believes that there is something about language that all the linguists, psychologists and logicians have missed--something that cannot be broken down into morphemes and phonemes, syntax and lexis, stimulus and response...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: One, Two, Many Discoveries | 7/18/1975 | See Source »

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