Word: hammerism
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Harby dragged some specimens from the current municipal art show to a city council meeting. One of them, the second-prizewinner, was a marine painting called The First Surge of the Sea. Demanded Harby: Wasn't that a Communist hammer & sickle brazenly displayed on the sails of the nearest boat? He pointed to a modernistic wood carving of a mother & child. "I've seen potatoes freshly dug from a field look better than this," he said. And what about the red hue in the canvas of the first-prizewinner-was that a forest fire, or what...
Officials of the show &and some of the contributing artists &-in sharp rebuttal. The hammer & sickle on the sails, it turned out, was really just a large C (for clipper) with an I (for island) drawn through i &the symbol for the Island Clipper class. The red hue was not a forest fire, said Artist Gerald Campbell, but a symbol of birth. When Critic Harby muttered something under his breath at that, Artist Campbell rapped back: "I won't stand for this ... I spent two years in the Army fighting for freedom of expression...
...eight musicians piled their instruments on the stage of the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, and set to work tuning them -with a sledge hammer. This did no particular damage, because the "instruments" were made from 50-gallon steel oil drums. Tuned up, the Trinidad Invaders Steel Band gave a surprised New York Herald Tribune Forum audience something far more harmonious to listen to last week than the clangorous world affairs they had been discussing...
...cattle-country Boys Town at which hundreds of homeless or once-delinquent lads have been educated. He asked for custody of Richard until the boy is 18. Richard, delighted at the chance to ride horses, agreed as soon as it was understood that he wanted to take his rubber hammer and rubber hatchet along...
Sculptor Cousino tried vainly to explain: "It's my conception of the Virgin, her mouth open in a stifled cry of the world's sufferings. I started off with the usual base, then despite myself, in the grip of a driving force, my hammer hit on my chisel. It was out of control. I was forced to obey orders which were not of my own inspiration. I can't say it's really mine...