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Sliding Images. Alfred Hrdlicka, an Austrian etcher whose fantasy even without drugs is pretty grotesque, began drawing a pig. "Don't you think that the eyes of a pig have a particularly devout look?" he asked. Suddenly Hrdlicka began drawing symmetrically with both hands at once, something he had never done before. "The simultaneous depiction with both hands may be new to Hrdlicka," says Hartmann. "But it is a well-known archetypal phenomenon that occurs in the art of schizophrenics...
...newspapers were in full and angry cry. Said the critic of Prace: "Even the première audience was often in doubt, and how much more in doubt will be our working people who go to the theater to enjoy themselves and be instructed." Nonsense, replied Director Bohumil Hrdlicka. He had simply been trying to infuse a little life and "socialist realism" into Mozart. For two more nights Hrdlicka and Conductor Jaroslav Kronbholc braved the rising storm. Then came the call from the Ministry of Culture, and Mozart departed from the boards of his beloved city...
...Then the many differences among human groups will appear only as mutations within a single species. "Race" might perhaps have been redefined, he conceded, but Nazis and others have abused the term until it can only be chucked out for good. Snorted the Smithsonian Institution's famed Ales Hrdlicka: "If all the anthropologists agreed with Montagu and dropped the word race from their vocabulary today, he would be back tomorrow with a claim that it was a good word and try to get it reinstated...
...another point Ashley-Montagu and Hrdlicka presented divergent evidence to reach an important agreement: Hrdlicka declared the evidence from old bones and pots is now conclusive that the long-disputed theory that the American Indians came from Asia via Bering Strait is indeed correct. Ashley-Montagu added evidence of a new sort: analysis of blood types...
Geological evidence indicates that a Folsom campsite in Colorado may be as much as 25,000 years old. After Folsom Man there is a long gap to the remains of Siberian immigrants, perhaps 4,000 or 5,000 years old, found by Hrdlicka in Alaska. Then come the "Basket-Makers" who lived in the southwestern U. S. about 15 centuries B. C. and who preceded the Indians whom white invaders found...