Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the battle for coeducation is pretty much won, vestiges of all-male days remain to haunt campus feminists. One example: the unabashedly male-chauvinist wording of Penn State's Alma Mater. The anthem's phrase "Thou didst mold us, dear old State," recently lost its refrain "Into men, into men." "When we stood at boyhood's gate" emerged unisexually as "childhood's gate." Elsewhere, however, sexism yet sounds hi full voice. At Princeton football games, for example, "her sons" still give "three cheers for Old Nassau." Princeton Recording Secretary Fred Fox says that if "sons...
...sculptor, but to the techniques used in the foundry of the man who cast them. These works are not pieces of marble carefully carved by one person, they are bronze and plaster versions of a work originally done in wax or clay, and then used to make a mold. With the help of elaborate measuring devices, a work could be (legally or illegally) copied in marble or clay. Sometimes the original artist supervised the reproduction process. In other cases he did not participate at all or the works were cast after his death. This all adds up to a wide...
...works--a highly specialized sample of the art of sculpture between 1778 and 1914, The differences between works are minute, and either an expert's eye or the $35 catalogue is needed in order to recognize the differences between one "Lion Attacking a Serpent" made from a plaster mold, and another made from a gelatin mold. Each mold makes a particular kind of scratch on the surface of the piece, which an uninitiated viewer can easily overlook...
...excellent but outrageously expensive catalogue, likes to draw a parallel between this collection and the pieces by the late sculptor David Smith which critic Clement Greenberg recently took it upon himself to repaint. Each of the statues in this show was similarly refinished when it came from its mold--the caster added details, smoothed the finish, destroyed the mystique of the artist...
...effort to break the mold cast by Franco comes too late, Juan Carlos will have at least one sympathizer. His brother-in-law Constantine has reportedly told Juan Carlos that if he had spoken out more forcefully against the military junta in Greece, he might still be reigning in Athens rather than living in the suburbs of London...