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...price it commanded, $10,000, was the highest paid up to that date for a painting by a living American artist. Yet when Church died in 1900, his fame had been so eclipsed that obituaries noted, "the fact that he was still alive had been almost forgotten by present-day artists...
...bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements. For present-day perception, the most important elements of art are the kinetic rhythms." Only a year earlier, a fellow constructivist, Vladimir Tallin, had designed a Monument to the Third International, a glass and iron tower 900 ft. tall with three geometric tiers rotating according to the day, the month and the year...
...post-nuclear age had degenerated into the "diplomacy of negotiations," which merely arranged a settlement once the issue had been decided. Before the last war, European statesmen used diplomacy as a tactical weapon for forming or destroying alliances in the backrooms of national capitals. But in the present-day world, where two super-powers can obliterate each other without external help, alliances become less crucial and such diplomacy has largely disappeared...
...foreleg of the elephant and the woman the hind leg," according to an old Thai saying. If that is so, the hind legs are doing more than their share of the walking in present-day Thailand. In increasing numbers, the women of Thailand are abandoning the sheltered life of the home to pursue careers in business. For all their delicate femininity - their diminutive, porcelain prettiness, their singsong voices and their flowing silk robes-they have proved to be tough businesswomen whose impact on their country has already been extensive...
Carl Rowan, 40, returns to journalism after serving as Ambassador to Finland and director of USIA. He plans to avoid strictly racial topics in his thrice-weekly column, which deals with everything from what's wrong with U.S. foreign policy to what's wrong with present-day pop tunes...