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Back in his daydreaming mode, MacCready drove on, watching a red-tailed hawk circling above. Estimating the bird's bank angle and timing its circles, he calculated its speed, then did the same with a black vulture. His mind drifted to hang gliders and sailplanes, conjured up scaling laws to compare their flying characteristics with those of the birds, and suddenly focused on man- powered flight...
Semen notes that Springier has provided a mode of representation for members who would otherwise feel disenfranchised. But, he adds, Springier has also served to polarize the Jewish community. "Sometimes I find myself taking more extreme positions in response to what the Progressive Jewish Alliance has done. But Jonathan would probably think that was a good thing--making people take a stance...
...many artists as repressive and, in Vietnam, genocidal. They championed the underdog by kicking the top dog. And for the first time, thanks to Supreme Court decisions liberalizing the definition of obscenity, performers were able to use whatever words they chose. Bruce, the gifted, tortured pioneer of this mode, aptly titled his autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. In the book's foreword, critic Kenneth Tynan praised Bruce as "an impromptu prose poet who trusted his audience so completely that he could talk in public no less outspokenly than he would talk in private." But Bruce suffered...
...most common weakness in the exhibit is a lack of boldness in the use of paint as a medium, not just a mode of color...
...late in the afternoon. I was in a rush. I was on spring break. I was not in socially-conscious-politically-correct-morally-sen sitive mode...