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Kirstein would not presume to interfere with Balanchine in artistic matters, and he leaves day-to-day office problems to General Manager Betty Cage. But when he hauls his angular 6-ft. 3-in. frame into the building, everybody somehow knows he is there...
...night began well for Sanders. A frenzied crowd of 4200 in Curry Hicks Cage, the former haunt of Julius "Dr. J." Erving, greeted the former Celtics forward with a standing ovation...
Only nine of the Crimson's 20-man team attended the meeting which left captain Phil Jonckheer with a two-man bench. Regular goalie Brent Haywood, who starred in the MIT tourney, didn't show up and defenseman Brian Mendes wound up in the cage for the first time...
...Castle, stories such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Hunger Artist" and "The Burrow" are the Grimm's fairy tales of the modern cloven spirit. Ordinary men awake to find they are helpless insects, or are found guilty of unknown crimes by unknown judges. One man wastes away in a cage, not because he is being starved but because he has never found the kind of food he might want. No grails are to be found in Kafka, no word or gesture ever turns frogs - or beetles - into princes...
...service of the mind." It is the mind that still reacts, both to Duchamp's career and to his immeasurable influence. His works now appear to be essences, concentrations of theory and expression that have nourished the creative spirit for six decades. His juggled compositions antedate John Cage by a generation. His readymades anticipate the objects of Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Rauschenberg has dedicated works to Duchamp; such disparate artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder and Yoko Ono have paid him tribute. Abstract Expressionism, Op art, even structures that destroy themselves have their roots in Duchamp...