Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, in art, is real? The question is as old as Plato and as new as the Museum of Modern Art's summer spectacular, called "The Art of the Real." The museum's show consists of 33 to total abstractions, on the argument that only objects professing to be nothing but themselves are truly "real." The older, more obvious and far more common interpretation, of course, is that reality in art is achieved by copying "real life." Stirred by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, a mini-renaissance of this older school is taking place...
When Schoenberg discovered how to organize atonal music by creating a new "scale" for each composition-an arbitrarily arranged series of the twelve chromatic tones-Webern extended the serial principle to such areas as rhythm and dynamics. Here he approached a state of total abstraction in which a piece would unfold entirely in accordance with the rules invented for it in advance by the composer, much as a computer responds to its mathematical programming...
...college's difficulties stem from both lack of leadership and the overt hostility of its New Hampshire neighbors, whose Yankee conservatism clashes with Franconia's avant-garde aims. Unintentionally, perhaps, the school quickly earned a reputation as a refuge for well-to-do but offbeat students (total yearly cost: $3,400). Last year more than one-third of Franconia's students were either transfers or dropouts from other colleges. Teachers in refuge from more orthodox corners of academe were attracted by the innovative spirit at an almost completely faculty-run school...
Nevertheless, steelmen were watching not the U.S. Government but U.S. Steel to see how prices would ultimately shake out. The industry leader, with 24.5% of total production, U.S. Steel had led off the price increases with a modest change in one item, tin plate, and the President publicly approved the "selective" move. When it came time to move again last week, U.S. Steel was as polite as its competitors had been imprudent. Cannily using the key word, it announced increases on "selected" products. All told, they covered 63% of the industry's output, included such important items...
...year history, the New York Stock Exchange proposed a reduction in its sacrosanct brokerage commissions. The cuts would apply only to orders involving more than 1,000 shares of stock. Even so, Big Board President Robert W. Haack estimated that the plan would cut U.S. brokers' total commissions about $150 million annually, or 7% of the $2.1 billion they took in last year from exchange trading. As of now, the same rates (varying with the price of the security) apply to each round lot of 100 shares, no matter how large the total trade. Thus the commission for buying...