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...differences, however, do not extend very far into the looks of the facilities. The 180-bed hospital has only private rooms, but other than that it is stainless steel, gurneys, casters clacking on tile-a hospital. The cafeteria in the basement has tables galore but very few chairs because here, as elsewhere where people are ill, they come to dinner already seated...
...ideals" and failed, does a disservice to the complex man he seeks to analyze. Caro insists that Johnson's conversion of a secret college social club into a political power on the Southwest texas campus revealed in the man a deviousness, a just for secrecy, and "a will of steel" plotting to "not only snatch existing power, but create . . . new power, of dimensions no students had ever had on campus before...
...pair of eyes, one mind at a time, as precisely and, there being no other word for the moral undercurrent of his work, as earnestly as possible. Hardly any Smith is more than ten feet high or wide. All the work responds willingly to nature. The stainless-steel planes of the Cubis, scribbled with stuttery, glittering lines by the rapid "drawing" of a power grinder, respond better to sunlight or starshine than to the static lighting of a museum. The high color and splashy textures with which he sometimes painted the steel were certainly meant to be seen against...
...Steel, as a sculptural material, is imperfectly expressive. It has never been fully able to suggest the pathetic. But it is a marvelous substance for embodying optimistic energy, the direct flow of feeling into untormented substance. All of Smith's best sculpture is an object lesson in what scale means, in the relationship between the sculptured object and the body of the viewer. And it was in his ability to create large steel equivalents for the sensations of the body, unclouded by apparent doubt or fear, that his monumentality as a sculptor...
...Crossings, Steel...