Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Timer. Fred Allen once called Wynn the funniest visual comedian of the day - and so he was. He ate corn by attaching it to a typewriter carriage, knocking it back every time he wanted to start a new row; he invented a wind shield wiper to be served with grape fruit; and an eleven-foot pole for people he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole...
...setting us straight on Leopold Stokowski [June 3]. His genius has been far more profitable to the musical world than his few past antics have been abusive. Presently, all we are asked to contend with are his Dionysian method of conducting (which is, for many, a more valuable visual aid than some are willing to admit) and certain liberties he may take with an orchestral score. Those who may feel they are not supposed to like such things need to remember what Brahms once said to Conductor Arthur Nikisch after Nikisch's fiery interpretation of the Brahms Violin Concerto...
...Cylert, made more accurate drawings of objects recently shown to them, showed more decisiveness about what they remembered, and recalled things faster than those who had taken a placebo. On a standard seven-item memory test, most of the men under 70 showed a significant improvement in memory for visual presentations (like the drawing test) and for pairing of words (such as "baby" and "cries...
Absurdity Is Fact. "Almost all present movements are anecdotal," says Le Pare. "The real interest of a painting is its visual presence, not the fact that a naked woman has rolled on it." "Presence" in his works is felt by pressing buttons. Motors whir, lights whirl, and metal mirrors wiggle back and forth fun-house style. By eliminating the human figure, and even human scale, Le Pare runs opposite to pop or any art style. He strikes out for a world where science and art meet, where absurdity is nonetheless fact, where reality, however abstract in appearance, is still reality...
...Design School Student gets an Academy Award nomination for a short he made at the Visual Arts Center. Dean Ford suggests that the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee help the Committee on General Education evaluate Gen Ed courses, but asks that they work unofficially. "I have found that people in this community work best when they are not operating in formalized meetings," he observes...