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...Texases converge each year on the state fair, held for 16 days in October on permanent, 200-acre grounds in East Dallas. Inevitably, it is the largest fair in the nation, attracting more than 3,000,000 visitors this year. Moreover, it is unique as a monument to Texas' preference for hip-shooting free enterprise, a self-sustaining, $2,000,000 hoedown that does not take one thin dime from the state treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...Legend. Such bombast is familiar because Picasso has not been a subject of serious controversy for at least 35 years. The man has become a monument, rising from a reflecting pool of undiluted praise. For Picasso is not merely the most famous artist alive. He is the most famous artist that ever lived; more people have heard of him than ever heard the names, let alone saw the work, of Michelangelo, Rembrandt or Cezanne while they were alive. His audience is incalculable. By now, it must run into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anatomy of a Minotaur | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth, and licentious usurious economics...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: If We Must Die | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Police have granted a permit for the rally on the Monument Grounds, but have denied the protestors a permit for the march on the White House...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii and Peter Shapiro, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Washington Antiwar Rally Rained Out | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

...rally originally scheduled to be held on the Monument Grounds yesterday was forced indoors to the All Souls Church here by the ceaseless downpour. About 500 wet demonstrators filled the church--located about three miles from the Monument Grounds--to hear antiwar speakers and make plans for the next day's protests...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii and Peter Shapiro, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Washington Antiwar Rally Rained Out | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

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