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...Introducing the Art Festival's present season will be a demonstration of the objects of Franz Walther, a young German artist recently on display in the "Spaces" exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art. Walther will transform an environment into a functional space, in which he plans to teach participants to employ his instrument-things in a series of exercises designed to inspire creative exploration of their inner thoughts. He hesitates to call his pieces "art," referring to each one, instead, as an object-instrument-topic-piece-work-thing-plant-unit-concept...
Artist Franz Walther will teach adventurous spectators to use his object instruments in space to further self-exploration, and there remains a possibility that environmentalist James Rosenquist will appear to experiment with the psycho-visual-atmosphere. Poetry and prose will be considered on separate evenings by such widely divergent figures as poet-critic-author-cultural hero Stephen Spender (The Year of the Young Rebels), and that flamboyant sports-caster of CBS television-Heywood Hale Broun. The Arts Festival will also feature piano recitals by Joseph Block and Armenta Adams, and will conclude its final weekend with a Quincy House production...
...relentlessly glowing fluorescent lights; another, by Larry Bell, is totally dark except for several dimly reflecting glass tubes. Robert Morris created a kind of arctic hothouse, where tiny spruces set in an earth bank simulate an upland for est. Most interesting is the space designed by Franz Erhard Walther, where anybody who comes along is invited to climb into, sit on or play with various canvas objects. This goes on under the guidance of the artist himself, who declares that he is exploring the psychology of personal space and activity...
...role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman Emperor. "Grass," says Schwarz, "is the only great German writer in 700 years to take such a direct part in politics, laying aside...
Historian Irving argues that lack of governmental support was the basic cause of the Nazis' nuclear failure. But some of his anecdotes suggest that the German scientists themselves were at fault. After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"-the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway...