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...Rauschenberg was living in the middle of a junk-crammed environment???Manhattan?a place that every week threw away more artifacts than were made in a year in 18th century Paris. An afternoon's stroll could furnish him with a complete "palette" of things to make art with: cardboard cartons, striped police barriers, sea tar, a stuffed bird, a broken umbrella, a shaving mirror, grimy postcards. These relics were sorted out in his studio, glued to surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively...
...environmental affairs. Alternatively, he might accept Stewart Udall's suggestion for a Council of Environmental Advisers, which would have the same influence over the environment as the Council of Economic Advisers has over the economy. Above all, ecology?the interrelationship of all living things within the framework of the environment???must become as familiar a word to bureaucrats as GS-12 or ABM. As the new President's task force commented: "The real stake is man's own survival?in a world worth living...
David Sinton Ingalls has a genius for environment???its selection and exploitation. He began by being born well, in Cleveland. His mother was the daughter of the late rich Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati and the niece of the late Chief Justice. His father is a vice president of New York Central R. R. He proceeded to St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he quickly developed a dashing stellar proficiency in hockey, a major St. Paul's sport. Here first his squinty smile, his shock of dark hair and high-pitched Taftian chuckle began...
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