Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lunches and once-weekly dinners (preceded by scholarly sherry) in Eliot House have really broadened the minds of already brilliant men. "Frankly, the society does not turn out Renaissance polymaths," says Brinton. "But something rubs off from one Fellow on another." The mixing of many disciplines avoids the free-form excesses of latter-day academic brainstorming, remains a memorable experience to most former Fellows. Says one J.F., now a Defense Department political analyst: "The society as a body would be an ideal school for those who are to serve the country well...
...generally understood by Orthodox rabbis as forbidding contraceptive devices, on the ground that users commit the sin of Onan, who "spilled [his seed] on the ground." But how about oral contraceptives in pill form? Rabbi Tendler's answer: oral contraceptives are permissible. But the effect of some of the pills now used (in experiments in Puerto Rico, for instance) is to reduce the hormone level in a woman, which in turn may result in constant minor bleeding from the uterus. The law forbids sexual intercourse with a woman who is nidah (menstruous); therefore intercourse would be wrong...
...scattered three-and four-family camps along the island's frozen coast. It is also the center of the best folk art this side of Africa. Already famed as the most skilled of the Eskimo sculptors, the Cape Dorset people have recently taken up a new art form: prints. Next week the first exhibition of their new work will go on display in Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts...
...took samples south, where collectors snapped them up. In 1951 Houston settled in Cape Dorset as the Canadian government's civil administrator and chief patron of the local artists. Once Houston had built carving into a business that grosses $150,000 each year, he looked for another art form into which to guide Canada's Eskimos. He remembered seeing incised drawings some Eskimos had done in soapstone, and decided they could become printmakers...
...artists live a more hazardous life. In the last year, two of Cape Dorset's twelve printmakers have met death on the ice fields. One of the deaths has given the new art form its first legend. Niviaksi-ak, 39, was already a famous carver when he took up prints. Of all the subjects he portrayed, the one that preyed most on his mind was bears. During the last months of his life, he pondered deeply on the soul of the great, inscrutable polar bear...