Word: ideas
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...year, Daykin produced concert versions of two Gershwin musicals, as well as an all-star tribute that featured a gnomic rendition of Soon by Bob Dylan. ("Did he hit even one right note?" Daykin asks today.) When she came to City Center in 1992, she brought the concert-revival idea with...
...from then on the idea of literal movement in art kept growing on Calder. He experimented from time to time with sculpture whose abstract elements were driven by motors, acting on them through more-or-less hidden bands and pulleys. These were the works that Marcel Duchamp, when he saw them in 1931, christened "mobiles"--the word by which Calder is known. But these motorized pieces were too predictable. Calder's genius was for the unprogrammed--natural, as distinct from mechanical and repetitious motion. What he did best was present metaphors of natural movement in the simplest technical terms...
...came up with the idea of sculpture as something for the lightest air currents to change: arrays of delicately balanced wire arms with colored leaves and fins and fans on the end, orbiting eccentrically and never coming back to exactly the same position. They respond to your presence. They are supremely friendly sculpture, even in the distance of abstraction. Their severity of line and form is always tempered by a certain rhythmic sweetness, as in one of the masterpieces of Calder's middle years, The Spider, 1940. Later, as he got famous and "monumental" commissions were pressed...
This method of telling a story has its sometimes irritating limitations. Irving spends a lot of time describing what his characters do not know; for example, "[Ruth] had no idea that she was not through with him." And the author sometimes overexplains: "Oh, well, Eddie thought as he got off the bus--maybe it was almost Ninety-second Street. (It was Eighty-first.)" But these are the lapses of a generous narrator intent on giving his readers not just incidents but a way of making sense of them. "The grief over lost children never dies," Irving writes near...
This was TIME's most interesting and profound issue ever, in particular because of Walter Isaacson's article "Our Century... and the Next One." Isaacson concluded, "The ultimate goal of democracy and freedom...is...to nurture the dignity and values of each individual." To my mind that idea is more than an American political idea. It is the promise to obliterate racial and religious bigotry, hence to end most of mankind's current agonies. It is the mutual spiritual purpose for all human life. OLIVER ANDRESEN Schaumburg...