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...CARPENTER CENTER is a bastard of a building, a concrete monolith flanked on all sides by the peculiar combination of colonialism and conservatism that makes up the Harvard red-brick style. The department it houses is another sort of aberration, grudgingly giving credit for work with paper, brushes, paint and wood instead of work with words...
...Monolith. Success sits easily on Caro. Few living sculptors have achieved more of it. At 51, a twinkling, compact man with a boxer's fleshy nose and a pepper-and-salt beard, he is by general consent the best sculptor to have emerged from England since Henry Moore. One powerful wing of American Establishment taste-the Greenberg circle, which includes such critics as Michael Fried and curators like Boston's Kenworth Moffett and MOMA'S Rubin-is disposed to think of him as the most important sculptor alive: the sole inheritor to David Smith. This has been...
...effectiveness, however, has already been called into question. The T.U.C. is not a monolith, but a loose federation that can exert only moral force over the individual unions it represents. The limits of its power were demonstrated when, less than a week after the T.U.C.'s pledge of cooperation, 1,800 workers at Ford Motor plants in Dagenham and Halewood went on strike. They are demanding further cost-of-living adjustments after the current escalator agreements expire next month. The walkout has already affected another 15,000 workers at the two plants. Says Arthur Flicker, spokesman for the shop...
...postwar era, covert action seemed eminently justifiable on the grounds that the U.S. was in a mortal struggle with the Communist world. Now that the cold war has abated and Communism is no longer a monolith, many scholars, diplomats and congressional leaders favor ending the CIA'S covert operations altogether, leaving it an intelligence-gathering agency...
Epstein raised some vexed questions, but reduced the answers to stereotypes. He cast "the media" as a monolith instead of the collection of diverse organizations and individuals that is American journalism. In hanging the civil rights movement's troubles on sensation-seeking press coverage, he ignored a host of political, social and economic factors. The piece was a paradigm of the opinionated mush that [More] attacks when it appears elsewhere. To cap the inconsistency, the same issue of [More] carried a full-page Mobil ad of the kind that Epstein deplored...