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Harvard's built some pretty great stuff, notably the Carpenter Center and Gropius's Bauhaus building, Harkness Commons. But it doesn't try so hard every time and sometimes it just flops. The McKay Labs (upper right) are functional but featureless. And Yamasaki's (he later built the Woodrow Wilson School building at Princeton) William James Hall (left) is visually unbalanced and doesn't fit into its surroundings. The Loeb (above) just sits there but then really makes it at night. Hilles Library, too, is neat in the dark but scares the people who live across Garden St. Sert...
Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...
...Paul Harris, 40, his upholstered people with their flagrant colors and featureless patterns are really subconscious cartooning. And he endows it with a kind of mordant humor that is much admired by most young West Coast artists. "If you see a bird flying," he says, "it has all the qualities of being a beautiful bird. Then if you find a dead bird, it makes you wonder what is the real bird...
Unlike most of his contemporaries, the tempestuous Lewis championed the intellect against the senses, ultimately turning on all his friends for deserting rationality. He had a horror of the "surging, ecstatic featureless chaos which is being set up as an ideal, in-place of the noble exactitude and harmonious proportions of the European scientific ideal." His own ideal was ancient Greece. "The dialogues of Plato," he wrote in Time and Western Man, "have not an effluvia of feminine scent; nor do they erect pointers on all the pathways of the mind, waving frantically back to the gonadal ecstasies...
...easily preoccupied with giantism-an understandable result both of the publishers' belief that bestsellers sell best, and of the wistful ache of uncertain readers to be in the mode. But literature has never been a procession of giants. Nor do they arise, like occasional Poseidons, from a featureless sea. Rather, they form part of a moving and sustaining stream of literature, which is and must be fed by tributaries. Minor writers are needed to produce major ones...