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...both a Cartesian and a sensualist, Matisse wasted nothing. Feeling, for him, included a great deal that flat paint could not convey-notably the awareness of thick, monumental volume, of the thrust and jut of shapes by which human frames state their energy. The proper vehicle for this was sculpture, where volume is real and not-as in painting-illusion. The result, despite the small scale that Matisse preferred in works like Reclining Nude III, was the most Michelangelesque collection of sculpture that any 20th century artist has produced...
...freezing wind whistled through the wooded area near Zurich last week. Thick snow covered the ground. Despite the weather, a few dozen hardy Swiss persisted in their strange activity. While jogging one after another, they suddenly stopped, did a series of strenuous push-ups-or energetic deep knee bends or vigorous hops into the air -and then resumed jogging...
...best when he describes the fires he has fought. In scene after scene the men of Company 82 race up the stairs of flaming tenements, hose-whip tornadoes of dark orange flame, crawl through smoke as thick as gravy, groping for bodies, stagger out with a tragic load of suffocated mothers and babies, then puke black phlegm all over the pavement. Many victims, it is true, are brought out alive-Engine Co. 82 performs prodigies of rescue every...
...Sunday morning, December 26, when the planes came. Four U.S. jet fighter-bombers dived through the thick cloud cover and dropped eight demolition bombs and four new model anti-personnel bombs on the Thanh Hoa Hospital. According to the hospital's vice-director, Vo Dinh Chi, two of the buildings were completely destroyed and three others damaged. Nine people were killed, 11 others were wounded...
...Richard Nixon prepares to fly to Peking this week, he is reading, among other things, some of the writings of the remarkable poet-politician who will be his host. The haunting, prophetic verse quoted above, written in 1956, is included along with the eight thick black volumes of political and cultural notes that were put together by Henry Kissinger to brief the President for his historic mission to China. A year ago, the very idea that Nixon, or any other U.S. Chief Executive, would visit China on a good-will mission would have seemed absurd. But not only the mountain...