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Such a work load would be more than enough for most sculptors. But Mestrovic also has another and even bigger project. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, has asked him to decorate the fagade of its new diagnostic building, and Mestrovic has answered with a typically herculean work. To be cast in gleaming bronze, it is a straight-backed figure of a young man straining to reach the sky-28 feet from tiptoe to fingertip. Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says...
...Soviet Russia. The fact that Senator McCarthy thinks other people are more qualified is not relevant. The fact is that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles tapped Bohlen for the job because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric of American Government. But he has not been alone in this challenging task. People like Bob Taft of Ohio and Bill Knowland of California and Homer Ferguson of Michigan trained their sights on the Communist menace long before...
Reinforced Concrete. Scorning the W.F.T.U., the A.F.L.'s Free Trade Union Committee (formed in 1944) decided to help rebuild democratic unions in Europe. It handed the Herculean assignment to Brown because he was a well-educated (N.Y.U., Columbia) A.F.L. organizer with a rugged constitution and lots of hustle. Since November 1945, when he arrived in Paris, Brown has learned to speak French, German and Italian, traveled over 500,000 miles, visited 26 countries, dealt with thousands of labor leaders from Karachi to Helsinki...
Jesuit Father Hernandez Heras, organizer of the exhibit, picked up d'Ors' idea of universalism and sailed it back. Could he accept "the Herculean forms of a prizefighter that Michelangelo gave God in the Sistine Chapel...the fat Flemish women Rubens painted as Virgins?" Heras, who teaches at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, thought some of the Indian types were "nearer to the Judean type of Jesus and the Holy Family than our classic figures...
...that I was blocking the reforms sponsored by the Hoover Commission . . . I have always stood for progress and change which is constructive. I do not shun being critical if thereby I am constructive. The record of the Hoover Commission is monumentally constructive in the main and has been a Herculean accomplishment, but it has not been a work in which there is universal agreement for every task-force report or which is supported item by item by its members themselves. If a member of the Commission or any other citizen cannot support some item or a phase of it, there...