Word: continuum
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...short stories are fashioned more of nerves than sinew. In Back to the Sea, Alberto Moravia offers one of his sensually melancholy battles of the sexes, so arrestingly Moravian that it scarcely need have been signed. Maurice Richardson begins Way Out in the Continuum, a chillingly funny satire of the post-atomic-war age, with the sentence: "This is decapitated head No. 63, Universal Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale...
...right−that the colors and forms employed were sufficient unto themselves, that the artist lived in his picture, that the picture was a work of tensions, and so forth ... It was said that the artist was keeping pace with science; relativity and the time-space continuum were called upon; and for the most ambiguous of statements in paint it was asserted that the artist was reflecting the confusion, the disillusion, of our times. "This sort of rationalization after the fact reached such a point . . . that the correspondent of one European paper was moved to refer to some...