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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Noland are generally filled with several areas of color that rest flatly on the canvas, Olitski has mastered the art of spraying on paint to create a single, subtly shaded veil that conveys an illusion of depth. It is a painstaking process; on a single painting he may use as many as ten different spray guns, apply dozens of different coats. When completed, the painting gives a viewer the sensation of gazing into a shimmering, bottomless sea. To dramatize the effect, Olitski often moors his canvas to earth with emphatic narrow bands of paint along the edges, which form...
...except when the public good requires some direction or restraint." A law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets, continued the court, "has a relationship to the protection of the individual motorcyclist from himself, but not to the public health, safety and welfare." So Michigan's motorcyclists no longer must use helmets. But the Rhode Island Supreme Court was "not persuaded that the legislature is powerless to prohibit individuals from pursuing a course of conduct which could conceivably result in their becoming public charges." So Rhode Island's riders must still wear hard hats...
...Federal Government curtail marijuana use by requiring those who deal in the drug to register and pay a tax? Since possession of pot is illegal in every state-even when the tax is paid-and since the name of anyone buying a tax stamp is made public, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Theis ruled last month in Wichita, Kans., that practically speaking the law cannot be enforced constitutionally. Following the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court, which found similar defects in tax laws dealing with guns and gamblers, Theis held that enforcement of the marijuana tax violated the constitutional guarantee...
Citizens Against Coercion. That was too much for Knowland, who ordered a front-page editorial titled "Our Community Challenged." Every citizen, it said, should "realize that this is an attempt to use threats and brute force to demand compliance with the views of an articulate and aggressive minority. This was a process used by both the Nazis and the Communists in destroying free institutions abroad." Knowland then urged the "average citizen" (meaning white) to patronize the boycotted market. "This is where we stand," concluded the editorial. "Where do you stand...
...Viet Nam. When Bobby Kennedy made a speech saying that the U.S. couldn't win in Viet Nam, Alsop, writes Miller, called the Senator's office three times to denounce him as a "traitor" to his country. To win in Viet Nam, Alsop is even willing to use what he calls "Mr. Big"-the atom bomb-Miller says. "Friends call the Alsop manner imperial," sums up Miller; "enemies, when they are being kind, refer to it as arrogant...