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...name of the show is "Dark," and it is the newest wrinkle in kinetic art. It is instant light sculpture, produced by a laser beam (in the case of the red lines) and a mercury-vapor lamp (for the white). "Dark" was dreamed up by Robert Whitman, 32, an artist whose reputation in Manhattan art circles rests on his theater happenings and "cinema sculptures," including a movie of a nude taking a shower. Whitman is fascinated by the fourth dimension, and, to work through his newest analysis of it, he called on the services of two Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers...
...Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...
...Stuart Whitman plays a U.S. marshal who patrols a vast, wild borderland somewhere between Kansas and Indian territory. Premiere...
...three per cent of the cases he had seen, Lettvin said, taking drugs had brought on a form of epilepsy, similar to the type which affilicted Charles Whitman, the Texas sniper. "Real Dostoyevsky if you want to see what it is like," he recommended...
...various organizations that do not necessarily accept it. While most New Leftists still embrace S.N.C.C. and CORE, the embrace is one-sided; the leaders of those organizations, with their new drive for black power, have frozen whites out. Most New Leftists claim as their spiritual ancestors Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman rather than Marx or Lenin. Thus they are distinct from the various Communist and socialist groups descended from the old, pre-World War II left, though they share many of their aims and indiscriminately welcome their presence in any sit-in, teach-in or bein. Chief among these Marxist-oriented...