Word: artifacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the tremendous impact of anthropology on modern thought it is perhaps surprising that such a systematic investigation has been so long delayed. For decades field workers have returned to civilization to tell us that primitive thought is as much a cultural artifact as potsherds, farming methods, and sex taboos. So too the historians have devoted volumes to demonstrating that the intellectual interests and methods of our ancestors reflected their natural and social environment. Applying all this to our own society, we have studied the mentality of the juvenile delinquent, the compulsive neurotic, and the migrant worker to show that...
...while Johnny returns the favor by showing his pal safe trails through the Spade jungle. The pair meet such notable Spades as Peter Pay Paul, who pushes an asthma cure as marijuana; Billy Whispers, a pimp of stature; and Ronson Lighter, whose kleptomania focuses on only one Jumble artifact...
...power of primitive art. In the hands of such moderns as Painters Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Sculptors Brancusi, Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, this source of inspiration has not only produced new art; it has also caused primitive art itself to be reassessed. The rise of primitive works from artifact to art is currently being demonstrated by the first showing of the Baltimore Museum of Art's handsome 196-piece collection of Oceanic Art (see color page...
...natural objects for their art value? So, as I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival . . . Each day. as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday." Then, in a different mood, he confesses: "Now I am in the decline of my eighth decade and live so much more in the people, the books...
Among all the complicated engines contrived by man, few have titillated the imagination like that noble automotive artifact, the Stanley Steamer. Nobody, according to early legend, knew how fast it would go, but thousands of dustered and begoggled motorists believed that a man with nerve enough to hold its throttle open after his hat flew off could keep it accelerating indefinitely. It was rumored -though here the mind reeled and the senses boggled-that it might reach 100 miles an hour...