Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assumes that the puzzles have a solution, that they will be fair. He holds to a faith in the underlying order of the universe. His motivation is his fascination with the puzzle itself- his method a curious interplay between idea and experience. His pleasures are those of any artist...
Someone once asked the artist Giacometti if, were his studio on fire, he would first save his famous sculpture of a dog or a dog he kept as a pet. Giacometti said he would save the dog. Apparently, the majority of the Harvard Faculty would, in the same situation prefer to save the sculpture. For what the Faculty's failure to go out on strike with the students essentially means is that they would rather save University routine than join students in a full-time struggle against the systematic murder of Asians, black militants, and college students by our government...
...skyline and began to dance, guided by twelve men straining on guy ropes on the roof far below. One link tore off as the wind lashed it against the nearby Gulf Building and floated away above the Allegheny River. Confesses the man who devised the spectacle, German Kinetic Artist Otto Piene: "I haven't heard where it came down, but apparently it didn't do any harm." The event was "a sky ballet" entitled Red Helium Sky Line-and he thought it went off very well. "You make a huge line and let the wind draw with...
They live still with morning freshness in my memory, their clearness, warmth of feeling, calmness of intelligence; in short the sense of an artist at work in whom one could have complete confidence...
Outside the university they are found in the self-styled New Left, composed of young, cosmopolitan, and moderately angry intellectual-and artist-types (who also seem to be the only Israelis who use drugs...