Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Base. He got welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of the island's murky flash fogs, rolling in from the sea with bewildering speed. Burnham, using Nantucket's Visual Omni Range beam, prepared for an instrument approach. But the fog thickened until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair by voice radio-and could not reach it. Flight 258 came in for its landing, flying low over scrub pines. It plowed...
...Grants of $240 million over the next four years for audio-visual aids, texts, etc., to be used by public elementary and secondary schools for science, mathematics and modern foreign-language instruction...
...What is abstract art in the good sense?'' "How do you know when a work is finished?" "Why put a title on a painting?" Though no agreement was reached, each artist found his canvas recording a battle royal in which the brush strokes, drippings and splatter were visual records of his ordeal...
From the splashes of Pollock and De Kooning to the finely executed color planes of Rothko. the movement has a wide range of identifiable styles. Each painter produces his own subjective expression without regard for what it communicates. The absence of any recognizable visual imagery has struck many critics and philosophers, like Theologian Paul Tillich, as a cult of meaninglessness, proof of "the emptiness of our existence in industrial society." Other critics have an entirely different perspective, see in the abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds...
...counter, has raised such a ruckus as the choice of U.S. art (see color pages). The original intent, outlined by American Federation of Arts Director Harris K. Prior, was to document the proposition: "Nowhere in the world can man live a complete life without the beneficent presence of the visual arts. In America, because of the highly mechanized civilization and the abundance of leisure time, they are perhaps even more necessary than elsewhere...