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...tangible enough for me," he says. "I have to have something, like a child, that I can feel.'' When he first turned to sculpture, he worked in wood; it was not until he was past 50 that he found the materials that he now prefers-sheets of copper, bronze or silver, which he bends, hammers and brazes to enclose his forms. His skill is impressive, but even more so is the splendid chaos of his ideas, a mixture of corn and stabbing truth that often is close to surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture...
...Copper Kettle was written in 1953 as part of my opera Go Lightly Stranger...
...Melting Copper. To save money, Khrushchev seemed ready to start a modern wave of iconoclasm: "You know how irrationally we use metal on various monuments to satisfy philistine tastes. We pay gold to buy copper abroad. If Lenin would rise up he would say: 'Our great cause is not ennobled by monuments.' Let us issue a call for removing copper where it is unnecessary, and let us melt it down for more important things...
...quietly desperate that her early records would not be out of place at a funeral. More recently she has added some lighter material to create a semblance of variety, but the force of sadness in her personality is so compelling that even the wonderful and instructive lyrics of Copper Kettle somehow manage to portend a doom deeper than a jail sentence...
...businessmen: October's sales of 728,500 U.S.-made cars were the highest for any month in history (and more than 150,000 ahead of the previous high for an October, set in 1955). If the hot pace continues, the auto industry alone-which buys so much steel, copper, glass and rubber-could lead the whole economy upward next year...