Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chagall learned some of the discipline of the cubists. But he resisted their dissection of form. "Let them eat their fill of their square peas on their triangular tables!" he wrote. Nevertheless, something of Cartesian logic crept into his fantasies; his pictures took on orderly geometry; his images lost traditional figure-ground relationships and, instead, flattened against the picture plane in search of purely visual values. Said Chagall: "For me, a painting is a surface covered with representations of things- objects, animals, human beings- in a certain order in which logic and illustration have no importance...
...will be closed and part of the land used. Harvard hopes, in its new building program. The University will in turn give up three slices of land, one in front of Littauer and the others on the Quincy St. and Cambridge St. Side of the triangular plot of land occupied by Memorial Hall. The total 11,500 sq. ft. involved will be used to widen Quincy and Cambridge Streets...
...instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing the surface...
...Coolidge Prize for the two speakers on the Harvard team in Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Tournament to Danny J. Boggs of Eliot House and Bowling Green, and James H. McGrew '65, of Quincy and Denver, Colo. Each will relate approximately...
...Randy Matson, 20: a new world shotput record (his second), with a put of 69 ft. ¾ in., in a triangular meet; at Austin, Texas. Wearing an elastic band to protect a strained ligament in his left knee, Matson smashed his best mark by a full...