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...Oldest and best known is scholarly, affable George Cohen, 40, whose The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve caused something of a sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Here Come the Monsters | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Craggy Konrad Adenauer-whom London Daily Mirror Columnist "Cassandra" (William Connor) once accused of demonstrating that Europe's German "problem child is still reaching for his flick knife"-has been a target of Fleet Street snarls for months. What had suddenly turned the snarls into a shrill chorus of rage was President Eisenhower's approaching tour of Western Europe's capitals and a surge of British fear that Adenauer would somehow persuade Ike "to keep the cold war alive." To the Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,054), Adenauer was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, "who ranted and raved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shrillness in Fleet Street | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including the frozenly quizzical Somerset Maugham and the electric-haired "Ein") with dashing busts that almost seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Neutron Shower. In Kolb's experiment, the deuterium plasma is held in a quartz tube about a foot long. At each end the magnetic field is given added strength to form a magnetic "mirror," which reflects back the charged particles as they try to escape, thus sealing the gas in a magnetic bottle. A bank of 99 condensers, kept in the basement since condensers sometimes blow up, sends a jolt of 4,000,000 amperes thundering through the coil, heating the gas up to around 20 million degrees. Dr. Kolb reported that his machine had confined plasma and kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting Closer | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Each morning the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 350,966) rolls off its Manhattan presses in a grueling fourth-place struggle against its competitors-the Daily News (circ. 2,025,229), the Mirror (836,810) and the Times (673,974). An ocean away in Paris, home of the Trib's Continental alter ego, the picture is far different. Last week, following a pattern of years, the European edition of the Herald Tribune splashed prosperously across 45 countries, in each of which it enjoys something close to dominance. The European Trib is not only the biggest English-language paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Trib of the Other Side | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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