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...seagull drinks water off the roof of a factory. The narrow streets flash by perpendicular to the tracks. Down through a narrow gorge bordered on both sides by elevated highways, and then a flat plain crowded by a colony of monstrous housing projects, each twenty-story building in the shadow of its neighbor...
...convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay stretched toward infinity. The idea that Giacometti's achievement was to have found a new stylization of the body has stuck to him in death, though it repelled him in life. "It is a monstrous misunderstanding!" he once exclaimed. "All the critics, all the writers spoke about the metaphysical content or the poetic message of my work. But for me it is nothing of the sort. It is a purely optical exercise. I try to represent a head...
...doubts that mankind can be brought to care enough about the future to do what is necessary to save the present - especially as regards self-denial. Can 20th century civilization give up the "ethos of 'science' " (not to mention the work ethic) and for sake the now monstrous ideal of growth for the ideal of stability? Heilbroner sees little reason to expect that either of the two main socioeconomic systems will manage such self-abnegation. Both capitalism and socialism, he argues, share the values of technology - production and efficiency - with small regard for the pillage of nature...
...would have been impressive in itself. Haydn was unaccustomed to writing virtuoso solo parts since he was not a virtuoso performer himself. But this concerto, written for (and perhaps with the aid of) the principal cellist of Prince Esterhazy's private orchestra, abounds with the most difficult technical feats: monstrous intervals and arpeggios, fiendish scales, and intricate double-stop passages, all of which Yo-Yo seemed to play effortlessly...
Nonetheless, Solzhenitsyn's example may in fact hearten rather than discourage Russia's libertarians. Last week Sakharov and nine other prominent dissenters issued an impassioned defense of Solzhenitsyn's actions: "His so-called 'treason' consists of his disclosure to the whole world, with shattering force, of the monstrous crimes committed in the U.S.S.R. not very long ago." They demanded the publication of Gulag in the Soviet Union and called for an international investigation of the crimes against innocent Soviet citizens...