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...animosities still raged. Last week the patina visibly cracked. When the representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries met, they argued vociferously and unproductively. The fiasco proved with new force what has been clear for a long time: the Warsaw Pact, somewhat like its NATO equivalent, is now an artifact rather than a fact...
...longer shocks, it seldom edifies. Gone is the romantic reverence that made a work of art an object of worship; now it is apt to be just a household object, a neatly executed artifact. Is that enough? "If a painting does not make a human contact, it is nothing," says Motherwell. "The audience also is responsible. Through pictures, our passions touch; therefore painting is the fulfillment of a deep human necessity, not a production of a handmade commodity. A painting, or a man, is neither a decoration nor an anecdote...
Superficially, the city will still be the greatest artifact of Renaissance culture. But its richness for scholars has been greatly diminished...
...collections of important museums all over the world -- but the loss of the work of all the secondary masters, as well as the documents and materials which made Florence the only comprehensive center for Renaissance studies in the world. Superficially, the city will still be the greatest artifact of Renaissance culture. But its richness for scholars has been greatly diminished...
...matter how Surveyor fares in the darkness, however, it has already accomplished enough to generate some inspired scientific prose. Rhapsodized NASA Associate Administrator Homer Newell: "Today Surveyor stands alone in the dark on the desolate plain of the Ocean of Storms, a solitary artifact of men who live on another body of the solar system, 240,000 miles away...