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...been jailed for his ban-the-bomb convictions and argues, "Much ink, perhaps some blood, will flow before we arrive at a genuinely modern and credible vision of what a human person is. But I think any artist not in some way engaged upon that task might as well pack up and go home...
...enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never bet more than a pack of cigarettes or a couple of cigars," he said. A lie-detector test? Sure. "If I lied, the way I'm built, the lie-detector machine would explode...
...building. Architectural magazines hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work grew bigger, the autocritical facility of the architectural profession grew harsher - often with Yamasaki leading the pack. Critics declared the soaring interior of the Reynolds Metals Co. Building, which won a third A.I.A. First Honor Award, an impressive success; but they denounced the exterior grille, made of thousands of interlocking aluminum circles, as "costume jewelry." For Detroit's Northwest Y.W.C.A., Yamasaki designed a simple and highly practical building...
...suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears, imaginatively, the sound so muted the rest of the evening, the distant, electrifying yelps of the white world's hound pack...
...things - becomes impish, light and gay. The third movement, on a poem about a lonely young girl, is softly lyrical. The fourth movement, on Evtushenko's "Fears" (about the panicky Stalinist days), begins with an eerie trombone solo and builds to a chilling orchestral climax that suggests a pack of howling wolves...