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...conception of sculpture was "heroic," it was because Smith really saw those totems and sentinels, Cubis and sacrificial altars, gateways and chariots, not just as emblems of art history but as things to be reinvented. They were a proof of the selfs limitless powers to project itself upon the world. In other words, he possessed a belief in the possibilities of sculpture that has now vanished from Western art. "Oh, David," wrote his best friend Robert Motherwell, in one of the most moving valedictions ever offered to a dead artist by a live one, "you were as delicate as Vivaldi...
...this century, the human apply cautions of genetic engineering techniques will present us with some of the most difficult questions that have ever confronted mankind. It we can alter our own genetic blueprints, the potential for affecting the future of the human race, as we know it, becomes limitless...
Beyond the computer hardware lies the virtually limitless market for software, all those prerecorded programs that tell the willing but mindless computer what to do. These discs and cassettes range from John Wiley & Sons' investment analysis program for $59.95 (some run as high as $5,000) to Control Data's PLATO programs that teach Spanish or physics ($45 for the first lesson, $35 for succeeding ones) to a profusion of space wars, treasure hunts and other electronic games...
...Specialist Mikhail Gorbachev, 51, wield the most clout. Andropov and his colleagues are answerable in theory to the Central Committee, a body made up of 308 voting and 147 nonvoting members who represent a cross section of the nation. In practice, the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat exercise limitless power in running the Soviet Union...
According to Yergin, interviewed in his K-School office, Americans find it very comforting to have a "1950s attitude of energy self-sufficiency" currently fashionable in Washington. But behind that sugar coating of "limitless domestic resources" is the bitter pill of the West's future energy vulnerability...