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ILLINOIS has built a handsome native-brick structure to house a Lincoln library and a display of Lincoln manuscripts, both excellent. The stark simplicity of the building was probably dictated less by taste than by the vast cost of its star boarder, a steel-boned, electronic-nerved mechanical Lincoln that stands up, adjusts its coattails, clears its throat and delivers six excerpts from Abe's speeches on liberty with a nasal Midwestern twang...
ILLINOIS has built a handsome native-brick structure to house a Lincoln library and a display of Lincoln manuscripts, both excellent. The stark simplicity of the building was probably dictated less by taste than by the economic necessity of paying for its vastly more costly star boarder, a mechanical Lincoln. Steel-boned, electronic-nerved Abe moves and talks, but he can only manage about half the 36 expressions Barbra Streisand brags about in that song from Funny Girl...
Praise from Country Priests. Since leaving the Dominican order, Hermand has worked part-time as an accountant while studying for a degree in psychology. A TIME correspondent found him sitting in a small, stark, rented room that resembles a monk's cell. A few books lay on an oak table; there was an iron bed, a worn pair of slippers tucked underneath. A tall, narrow, curtainless window looked out on a garden where a summer rain pelted the leaves of a great elm. Rubbing his bald head, Hermand reminisced...
...easily recognizable; yet it is now sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern architecture...
...village hut in Kienhoa province, an old woman lies dying, broiled lobster-red from napalm, while a soldier spoons watery soup between her flayed lips. At another hamlet a teen-age girl, driven mad from the explosions of mortar shells, runs screaming from her house across the paddy-fields, stark nude...