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...action-three days after our Episcopal marriage-publicly calling for a boycott of my functioning as a clergyman-a cruel and uncanonical step unremedied after four months of approaches to him by various responsible clergy and laymen, singly and in groups-which was the straw that broke the camel's back...
...coiled tubing instead of an old-fashioned steam boiler and a special chemical preparation (to prevent freezing) instead of water. The fluid is sealed in, so it can't boil away. It is superheated to vapor by a burner that, according to Lear, "can burn anything from ground camel dung to high-grade gasoline"-although he recommends kerosene...
Miss Graves, however, when approached directly, maintains that all she cares about is camels. "There's as much possibility for fresh invention in making a camel as in making a human figure," she says. Come to think of it, since nobody else has done much using the camel as a subject, there is probably more...
...room in Manhattan's Whitney Museum. The dim light evoked the ambience of a silent desert night, but what chiefly provided the mood-a wonderfully eerie mood of austere melancholy-was the shambling, work-scarred beasts. Their hair was realistically matted, their baleful glass eyes shaded by the camel's peculiar glamour-girl eyelashes. One even wore a camel's remote, superior smile...
More than a few museumgoers suspected that Nancy Graves' camels were part of an ingenious put-on, particularly since the Whitney was handing out extraordinarily pretentious brochures in which Miss Graves was quoted as proclaiming that "these camels do not find their organization in the real world but are the result of my experience. I cannot imagine or perceive a camel until it is completed." It sounded rather as though she were kidding the highbrows who insist that great art must be abstract. Since the abstract artist-by definition-depicts shapes for which no exact models exist...