Word: voids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Korea's chronically unfavorable trade balance ; before the coup the country imported ten times as much as it exported. But the ban on imports has also denied shopkeepers the wares they need to stay in business, and backward domestic industry is incapable of filling the void...
...Above all, we must love Europe," he wrote, "this Europe to whom La Gioconda forever smiles, where Hamlet seeks in thought the mystery of his inaction, where Faust seeks in action comfort for the void of his thought, where Don Juan seeks in women met the woman never found, and Don Quixote, spear in hand, gallops to force reality to rise above itself. This Europe must be born. And she will, when Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Englishmen 'our Cracow,' Italians 'our Copenhagen'; when Germans say 'our Bruges,' and step back horror...
...with each other at the same time that they drive toward "the same Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and music whose dream is to erase the great art of the past and to fill the void with a new consciousness: "So far, the sounds of electronic music are meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat poets seek to capture with a tape recorder during their mindless monologues or in the trances...
...could be manipulated into an infinite number of arrangements. Vieira da Silva begins a work with no image in mind: the painting starts out as a "skeleton"-a few lines or points or cells-and then leads the artist on. "I always have a line to add or a void to fill," she says...
...magazine industry is not flourishing," says A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford in an introductory note to his new monthly, Show. "Why, then, a new publication at such a time?" Because, says Hartford, there was "no all-embracing publication of culture and the arts," and Show "will fill this void," at $1 per issue. If there was indeed such a void, it is still yawning. Show's first issue offers the less than startling news that lower production costs could cure Broadway's ills and that ABC-Television is run by men with the creative imagination of soap salesmen...