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...EMOTIONS of bored and dying men are the fabric of Ionesco's dramas. He expresses them with wonderful simplicity. Dilemmas are couched in the profound power of articulated feeling, not in metaphor or metaphysics. His characters speak with ever-expanding honesty and urgency, evoking the most elemental human feelings...
Summing up, Steiner proposes that "the major question for Europe is where the best of American civilization, with its great efficiencies, its uses of color, space, fabric, its ideas of comfort and speed of communication, can successfully meet with the values and traditions of the old world." Perhaps surprisingly, Steiner finds that ground of "creative collision" in Northern Italy, particularly in Milan. Thanks to the ancient strengths of the country-part Catholic, part Latin, part landscape -Northern Italy "has successfully avoided the second-rate Americanisms you see elsewhere in Europe-gas stations that don't work as well...
Shop layout is determined by the needs of the garment-in-process: cutting tables (if any) are on one side, with piles of cut fabric ready to move down the line of stitchers. Work tables are separated, and all face in the same direction, making conversation impossible. Of course, you don't talk in a factory--you shout. The noise level in many Boston shops is just below the Federal maximum. For at least an hour after the work-day is over, the women continue shouting about the noise that they still hear...
...York. The main work, entitled "My First Car," is not so much Pop art as it is modern art. It consists of four sculptural units: "The Basic Chassis" made of wood, "The Master Chassis" made of half-inch steel tubing, and "The Stainless Steel Body" and "The Fabric Steel Body" mounted on dummy chassis. Resembling closely the sleek racers that are present on the drag strips every Sunday, "My First Car" is an exercise in sculptural design...
...hide behind legalisms? The time has come to repair the fabric of our society. One step which will speed that agonizing process would be a Presidential pardon to those who evaded military service. While these individuals have not suffered the fate of prisoners of war in North Vietnam, they are "prisoners of the war" in the sense that they left our country to avoid participation in a war started by forces beyond their control...