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...marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish was meant to be swimming. But the slab, gently curved and polished to paperknife thinness, did seem to move somehow, and the uneven grain of the marble gave it a wavering, watery air. It was no small feat to make stone come alive. The Fish might be ivory-towerish, but no one could call it a joke...
...broken from the faith of his fathers: like most European artists since the Renaissance, he works to express human emotions, not to hint at supernatural forces. Suffering, supplication, exuberance were typical themes of his London show-themes ill-suited to violent distortion. Enwonwu sometimes let the shape and grain of the wood guide his chisel, to produce partial abstractions that merely pleased the eye. "Sometimes," he told admirers at the show's opening, "I see the form in my mind and it grows and grows as I work. I am happy when I am hacking out; I never want...
...drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase, an "old pro"-which is just what the U.S. needs at this dismal point in Korea...
...signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet markets...
...pigeons trained to compete in fierce individual enterprise. Pigeons that got this conditioning were put on opposite sides of a small table and urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...