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...Australia [March 22] is a well-written, well-informed piece of news on current Australian politics. But your heading, "Fall of the Larrikin," is very unfair to John Grey Gorton. He may have some faults and would be quick to admit them, but a larrikin [hooligan], no. Rough-hewn and outspoken, yes. He is a tough, typical Aussie...
From the beginning of art history, the word sculpture has meant monoliths -continuous closed forms hewn from one block of marble or cast in one piece of bronze. Then the tin and cardboard constructions that Picasso made in 1912-14 provoked what has become a new orthodoxy: sculpture should be made of open and discontinuous forms, declaring themselves to be not one mass but a sum of parts...
John Grey Gorton is what Australians call a larrikin-a rough-hewn fellow who often embarrasses his colleagues. Elected Prime Minister in 1968 after the drowning of Harold Holt, Gorton rarely consulted Cabinet colleagues and totally ignored backbenchers from his Liberal Party (which, despite the name, is markedly conservative). When he proposed legislation last year to take away the states' powers over off-shore mining, his party colleagues refused to support him, and he was forced to make a humiliating retreat. Gorton's personal style was, to say the least, indiscreet. He once arrived late...
...members, making up the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, are the fabric of the now somewhat frayed Bible Belt that arcs from California to Virginia. In folklore-and partly in fact-they stand as stern exponents of a Scripture understood in literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They filled the air with gospel singing and crowded onstage to deliver fervent "testimonies" before a background painted in Sunday-school pastels...