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Shooting Particles. Though his constructions often resemble something in nature-a huge sun, a giant dandelion, a weeping willow-Bertoia does not work directly from nature. Usually he places a piece of paper over an inked surface and with a wire brush gently traces out a quick, freehand design. For more solid forms he may press the paper with his fingers, or use a piece of metal to print a sharp edge. When the design pleases him, he tries to reproduce it in metal, twisting and bending bunches of rods this way and that. As he wrestles with...
Baer's stand is representative of one group of Faculty members who declined to be quoted. Their argument takes into account the identical objections posed by Handlin, Hughes, and McCloskey, but all, with varying degrees of rationality, brush them aside. Some couch their feelings in legal terms. Some do not bother.15H. STUART HUGHES...
What really upsets the U.N. is that many of these senior technicians ignore, others brush aside, Dayal's own U.N. specialists who want to take a hand in city or provincial administration. In the wake of last week's U.N. resolution banning "political advisers" from the Congo, some of Dayal's planners apparently hoped to stretch this definition to include the technicians too - although it was obvious that the U.N.'s small band of 200 technicians could never take over all the Belgians' jobs. At the very time the U.N. talks of kicking them...
...plan like his is adopted, Gard said, "people will have to face the consequences of it. In a way, you're making the world safe for limited war." A de facto agreement on stabilization may mean more "brush-fire" warfare, and guerillas must be trained "to cope with the people who farm by day and fight by night...
...painters use so bright a palette or so bold a brush and still achieve so sorrowful a mood. Purplish blues lie alongside acid greens; reds and yellows vie for attention yet do not seem to clash. Nor do the ragged rhythms of the paintings ever get out of control. Tension mounts in Jacob Lawrence's paintings, but the threatened disorder never takes place...