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...main element of Cremonini's paintings is force. His father cultivates a gentle sensibility while coaxing locomotives up to 75 miles an hour; the son works up power standing before an easel. Among his early subjects were slaughterhouse carcasses-gleaming slabs of meat and bone which caught his eye in the local abattoirs. Later came the fishermen and bathers of Ischia, where he is living, and rock-hard women like the one at right. He works on as many as 20 canvases at once, explains that "they are all slowly maturing...
...Asking nature the right question in the right way-or recognizing a theoretical pattern in a tangled skein of experimental data-often has the effect of introducing an element of beauty and elegance into the scientist's work. Do we not, on occasion, refer to a 'beautiful theory' and an 'elegant experiment'? A great experiment seems to us, somehow, something which could not have been done differently . . . Taking away something or adding something only detracts from it. In this respect, a beautiful experiment can surely be classed with a great work...
...Proximity Key. A reader turns away from a foreign story because of the "remoteness of foreign events from his own community," says the I.P.I, report. "It should be held in mind that proximity -in a geographical sense-is a key element in reader interest." Thus I.P.I. found that readers who devoted an average of 18 minutes a day to reading their paper spent only two minutes on foreign stories, were amazingly ignorant of foreign affairs. More than 56% of those polled could not identify Syngman Rhee, 40% did not know who Stalin's successor was, and only 27% knew...
...Control. The first electric frying pan with an automatic heat-control unit was brought out by Sunbeam Corp. On the handle is a list of foods, with recommended temperatures for frying; the pan can be set for temperatures ranging up to 400° F. A sealed heating element permits washing of the entire pan. Price...