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"A painting-before being a war horse, a nude woman or some anecdote-is essentially a flat surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order," said one painter-polemicist, Maurice Denis, in 1890. Thus began the rapid but epic evolution in which representation was first blurred, then distorted, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT IS ART TODAY? | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Graced with the same snub-nosed design that has characterized the basic bug since 1948, the new 1200 is as much a throwback as an evolution. It has the same chrome trim and many, though not all, of the improvements built into the current 1300 and 1500 models, such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Rethinking Small | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Indian philosophy views self-realization as the purpose in life. During the life cycle, a soul moves toward greater awareness through evolution and involution, through a Path of Pursuit and a Path of Return. Men on the outward path assert their willfulness in the physical world and accumulate knowledge of...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: Indian Art Exhibit Illustrates Irrelevance of Time & Space | 1/9/1967 | See Source »

Contracting Cloud. Though R Mon is a near neighbor, only 2,000 light-years away, its characteristics have universal implications. Most astronomers agree that the sun formed from a slowly rotating nebula-a cloud of dust and gas that gradually contracted because of gravitation, and began to rotate faster. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmogony: A Star Is Born | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

* In the course of evolution, the human jaw has become progressively smaller, leaving insufficient room for the full complement of third molars, which the great apes still grow. From 27% to 30% of people lack buds for one or more wisdom teeth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dentistry: Wisdom of the Third Molar | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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