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...headquarters in Tunis, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the Algerian F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) declared: "It is now possible to say that the Algerian revolution has triumphed and has attained the aims for which it fought." Despite these words, there was little sense of triumph beneath the outward forms of jubilation. The big fact about the Algerian cease-fire is moderation-a moderation resulting from exhaustion...
...side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady 30 r.p.m...
...characters are too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols have been known to multiply like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger is the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist's ego, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Williams has often come close to drowning in introspection. But he has always...
...development of the scribbles into art's higher language is governed by "muscle play," Mrs. Kellogg says; the child discovers the circle when his arm tires of outward movement and he makes the corresponding line back toward himself. Then, by combining one form and another, the infant artist makes further discoveries about order and balance, all of them intuitive, and all drawn from imagination rather than observation...
...would be thoroughly trained in the esthetic meaning of integrity-the harmony of contrasting parts in one pleasing whole. They would practice and expect it in carpentry and cookery as well as architecture and mathematics. Instead of politely hoodwinking others, they would learn manners as basically self-respect, "an outward sign of inward devotion to what is true, just and appropriate to each occasion." Instead of toiling for money "to get out of work"-modern man's self-defeating treadmill-they would choose jobs entirely on the basis of "tasks that most urgently need to be done...