Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show also offered a delicate "texturol-ogy" by Jean Dubuffet-a painting that looks at first like a piece of kitchen linoleum but then turns into a vision of outer space. The thick black crisscrossings of Pierre Soulages nicely complement Hans Hartung's "psychograms," which try to portray emotion through tapered lines of pure force...
DURING the H-bomb years it has become commonplace to say that nuclear war is "unthinkable" or "suicidal" or "preposterous," that it would bring "mutual annihilation" or "the end of civilization," or, as President Eisenhower put it, "a great emptiness." This apocalyptic vision of nuclear war, shared by both laymen and most defense experts, underlies a basic assumption of current U.S. defense policies: the threat of retaliatory nuclear attack by the U.S. is so frightening to Russian decision makers that it will automatically deter them from aggression...
Both the "mutual annihilation" vision and the automatic-deterrence strategy come under tough-minded bombardment in a newly published book, On Thermonuclear War (Princeton University; $10), which already is the talk of military thinkers across the U.S. Author: Herman Kahn, 38, senior staff physicist of the RAND Corp., the Air Force "think factory" headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif. One result of the idea that nuclear war is "unthinkable" is that too few men think about it in a serious way. But Kahn, consultant for the Atomic Energy Commission and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, has spent much...
Loud noise also causes a number of unpleasant bodily sensations, such as vibration of the head and eyeballs, loss of vision, loss of equilibrium and heating of the skin. A noise of 160 decibels can kill rats and mice. Explains Knudsen: "The body temperature rises to a lethal level. It's the conversion of sound energy into heat that kills." In humans, at sounds near and above 160 decibels, the stirrup (one of three little bones in the middle ear) may be driven through the small "window" in the well of the inner ear. Possible result: meningitis, from infection...
...public school on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "Did you ask any good questions today?" For a brief period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory?he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular physics won a Nobel Prize in 1944, were vital to U.S. atomic research. Now a part-time professor at Columbia University, Rabi argues that all scientists ought to be "oddballs." Their lives, he says, leave no room for such bourgeois considerations...