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...retrospect, Picasso's reluctance to have his sculpture judged on a par with his painting seems a needless reticence. For, although he has treated sculpture as something he did with his left hand, the present exhibition proves that his left hand knew quite well what the right hand drew, and on occasion did it better. Even the simplest piece-a hawk's head snipped from a piece of sheet iron-needs no signature. The work is plainly Picasso...
...slowed the psychic momentum of Saturday's charge. One felt anything less than a hit would reverse the dizzying hope he had aroused in team and crowd, reverse the superhuman confidence he had in himself. Lonborg could not defeat the Twins without his help. There is no point in needless suspense. In the fourth inning Yasthrzemski sliced a line drive off the left field wall and slid into second, into the very heart of the diamond. The Red Sox were still moving in the force field of fortune and victory which they had entered on Saturday...
...decree for mail coaches. But despite tradition, Swedes could hardly help noticing that neither their own motoring reflexes nor those of visitors from right-hand countries changed at the border. Foreigners kept getting into dangerous difficulties on Swedish roads, and the travel prone Swedes were getting into too many needless accidents abroad. Besides, driving Swedish cars in Sweden was a problem in itself. Because the first cars in Sweden were left-hand-drive imports, Swedish automakers also put left-hand steering in all their cars. Pulling out from a left lane to pass another car was something of a perilous...
...Needless to say, people like that are missing the point. Concerts, especially those of such uncompromising selectivity of programming and meticulousness of performance as Harvard's summer series, exist not for the final approval or disapproval of nit-picking musical Eumenides but for the expanded artistic experience and possibly edification...
...idea," explains Carter, "was to ask for the moon and hope for the best." Needless to say, the moon was not always delivered. The Louvre was not about to lend the Victory of Samothrace, but the Philadelphia Museum of Art came through with Rodin's 21-ton The Burghers of Calais. Italy was stingy with its Renaissance masters, saved its Donatello for its own pavilion...