Word: withering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American art in recent years. Geldzahler's decision to devote whole rooms to single artists of his choice rather than include everybody results in a perspective that he himself probably did not anticipate. In the Met's vast spaces, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell and even Barnett Newman wither. But the works of Ad Reinhardt, Hans Hofmann and Helen Frankenthaler take on new authority. The show's most serious deficiency is in sculpture, and Geldzahler admits that, with the exception of David Smith's towering talent, his choices were geared to what would look well with...
Less easily measured are the social and technological costs of allowing the space effort to wither away. The U.S. has invested $36 billion in space since...
...wake of the votes taken at the Business School, we would like the clarify an important points Out of the approximately 900 persons voting at the meeting at the Warson Rink, there were about 250 individuals who, although voting, are not wither candidates for degrees nor Faculty...
...received without conspicuous resentment by the tribal peoples of the area, long oppressed by the Chinese. The Russians move no farther south. Aware of Chinese skills at guerrilla warfare, Moscow orders that a new frontier be set up roughly along the 38th parallel. China is to be left to wither, stripped of its nuclear potential, shorn of its most important industrial complex, spiritually returned to the caves of Yenan...
Idyl and Ordeal. In any case, most Czechoslovaks are waiting uncomfortably for some sort of denouement. In the four months since the invasion, they have seen much of the excitement-and freedom-that was generated during Dubcek's early stewardship wither away under Soviet pressure. When TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who covered both the idyl and the ordeal, recently returned to Prague after an absence of two months, he found that the Russian presence was certainly the No. 1 reality in Czechoslovakia. Yet much of the country's mood, he found, remained resilient. For-bath's report...