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...style in art, as if the art connoisseurs had finally timed their pacesetting with the fashion designers in Paris. Art lurches from one peak of success to another (Pop, Happenings, Environmentalists, Conceptualists, Structuralists) so that you get seasick keeping up. Once, it took a century for an art to outdo itself, to reach that state of exaggeration from which a new style might explode. Now, you trade in art vocabularies like the diet faddist adjusting eating habits. It's enough to make anybody jumpy with anxiety. And anxiety is no good breeder of art lovers. But anxiety is what...
...Series now since 1949, and it has become a matter of civic price that the event be successful. During the games, as attendance is announced, the public address man keeps a line score on how the attendance figures compare with a year ago and he "cheerleads" the crowds to outdo the old mark...
...Twin Oaks place a great deal of stress on "competence" in performing the various chores which must be done for the benefit of all. In this guise, the competitiveness Kinkade believes they have banished is actually resurrected; this is a new form of amour propre: the desire to outdo the other in altruism. The person who works the hardest creates the greatest amount of leisure time for everyone; each member is driven by public opinion to attain this ideal and in turn forces it upon the others, for no one wants to be the object of community disapproval or ostracism...
...that Fellini's nemesis is reality itself, finally grown bizarre enough to challenge his imagination. So he strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...
...every locality of the land. If one union demands an out-of-line increase, Dunlop and his fellow committeemen have strong grounds to talk it down. A goal of the committee is to bring order to construction's crazy-quilt negotiating patterns, in which union locals try to outdo each other in gaining ever richer contracts. In an industry that has 10,000 competing locals, Dunlop is striving to set up a union-management board that would settle labor disputes at a national level...