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Brancusi had found his own style. From then on, he began those drastic reductions of natural shapes that left the human head an egglike form on which the features are barely traced, that found in a delicate wafer of blue, mottled marble the poetic essence of fish, that outlined in metal and stone the soaring flight of a bird...
Peasant Vigor. For a sculptor whose working life spanned more than 50 years, Brancusi's approximately 200 extant pieces do not constitute a large body of work. Once Brancusi found a motif that delighted him, he characteristically repeated it over and over again, subtly altering and refining its shapes and using different materials to give it new substance. There are 16 versions of Bird in Space. Not all his works, however, share Bird's elegant abstraction or the witty sophistication of Princess X, a subtly phallic take-off on the society-portrait bust. In his native Rumania, Brancusi...
Fundamentalism was on the defensive in the Roaring Twenties, and William Jennings Bryan, its principal spokesman, found himself under siege by the giants of the emerging Liberalism. He was attacked not only in the press by Henry Mencken and in the courtroom by Clarence Darrow, but even from the pulpit by a bright-eyed Baptist who had the temerity to question the virgin birth and the second coming of Christ...
...Playboy After Dark series, by another TV interloper. Hugh Hefner, is all pretension and forced fun. Yet somehow, as U.S. viewers discovered in the premiere last week, Joe's show had an insouciance, a spontaneity and a genuine joie de vivre that even congenital Namath haters must have found infuriatingly engaging...
...letter, Nelson said that he can represent both Harvard students and community residents: "I could bring to the Corporation a voice for the students of the University and a voice for the community, with the hope that a new basis for understanding and cooperation can be found...