Word: jaggedness
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Impassioned Protest. They were the exception. The typical expressionist posture was one of impassioned protest against a world that seemed, especially to young people raised in the stiffly hierarchical coils of German society and then traumatized by the war, mechanized beyond redemption. It was the last expiring twitch of German...
In 1878, Britain took Cyprus in "trust" from the declining Ottoman Empire and later annexed the island outright when Turkey sided with Germany and its allies during World War I. Under British rule, a wary but peaceful coexistence developed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Greek landowners in the jagged Troodos...
Fortunately, marine scientists from many countries are busy sampling, probing and testing the seas and the seabed in many areas, using some dazzling gadgets (see color pages). Off the Azores, French and American scientists are diving to depths of almost two miles in three tiny submersibles, including the U.S. Navy...
In contrast to the Albers, who rarely use curved lines, circles or non-geometric forms, their students often choose to dramatize the formal qualities of rhythm and movement. The black and white studies of triangles and spirals and the word designs on newsprint of Ruth Asawa, the best of the...
The turnout was greater than expected for the first convention of the Republican Party on July 6, 1854. So on that langorous summer day, hundreds of people wandered to the edge of the village of Jackson, Mich., to assemble in the shade of a grove of majestic oaks. Ever since...