Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special consultant to me even as you press the effort to bring nearer the day when the rule of law is as normal among nations as it now is among individuals. There are doubtless many ways in which governmental activities can be effectively joined with private undertakings in this vital field, and I want to assure that every such opportunity is utilized...
...examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic barrier...
...Empty or Vital? The seekers merged as a group in 1948, when they formed "The Club" for artists only, met in a loft in Greenwich Village, debated: "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...
...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 the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...
...Empty or vital, art or droolings, U.S. abstract-expressionist painting has arrived and is not likely to be rubbed out. Most of the paintings submitted in art competitions in major U.S. art centers show strong abstract-expressionist influence. The interest and enthusiasm of young European artists or "The New American Painting" suggest that this influence is now being exported to Europe. Whether it will have force enough to break down the scorn of the unconverted critics and the bewilderment of the public is still to be seen...