Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theatre expected to be entertained. The teach-in was not the prelude to organized action; this was not a meeting to educate people so they could convert others. The teach-in excited people, but gave them no productive channels for their enthusiasm. The speakers shot their words into the void. The echo reverberated as applause...
...void may be less than vacuum-tight. The press was at this teach-in; the press will be at all the teach-ins across the nation. So will most of the peace candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. Lindsay, Muskie, Clark, McGovern, Bavh, Gardner, Hughes-and. of course, McCarthy. The New York Times account of the Harvard teach-in didn't mention the name of another speaker at the meeting; the entire article was devoted to McCarthy. Although typically coy, McCarthy made clear his desire to win the nomination. "This is not a rerun of what happened...
Today, light is used by artists to make positive space out of void as the Constructivists used descriptive space, a making of positive from a previous void. In much of the optical and kinetic movements, one sees the Constructivist concern for space rather than for mass reiterated, especially in the French group, La Groupe de la Recherche Visuele, that includes such pioneers as La Parc and Agam. From Gabo and Pevsner's use of spatial structure comes spatial drawing as manifested in Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles, Anthony Caro's I Beams or even Picasso's wire sculptures...
...chairmanship to William J. Casey, 57, a Manhattan and Washington tax lawyer who is a partner of Leonard Hall, Republican national chairman during the Eisenhower Administration. At week's end Casey had not yet accepted the SEC post. The commission could use a firm hand. Moving into the void left by SEC dallying, a Senate Banking subcommittee headed by New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams last week started a "major investigation" of the securities industry...
...prime source of water pollution, are forcing cities like Akron to build more and more costly sewage-treatment plants. Last week the Soap and Detergent Association, whose members produce 90% of the nation's cleaning agents, asked Akron's Summit County common pleas court in effect to void the ban. In the first such industry suit in the U.S., the plaintiffs not only called the Akron deadline "impossible" but also claimed that it will force soap manufacturers to replace phosphates with other chemicals that may be even more harmful...