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...ready-mades," or store-bought hardware, and Picasso's "found objects." Paolozzi also once combined bits of cameras, clocks, toys and bombsights into figures that looked like archaic idols or, as he said, "the fetishes of a Congo witch doctor." Now his work sets up a more modern paradox between engineering and art, and his breakaway from traditional values has made him spiritual uncle (where Henry Moore is spiritual father) to younger British artists. Says Paolozzi: "People still think of sculpture only as bronzes. It's unconceivable to them that a Boeing 707 can have anything...
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that a good man is hated by lesser men equally in triumph and defeat. This second novel, which repeats the same theme in a larger setting, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is as exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes...
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that the only thing more intolerable to lesser men than the success of a good man is his defeat. This second novel, which repeats the same theme in a larger setting, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes...
...Harlem and Rochester riots and crowed: "This is New York City and New York State, and this is the state where people point their finger at Arkansas and Mississippi and send beatniks down here to try to tell us how to solve our problems!" And in the kind of paradox that has become commonplace in times of stress, a stunning Negro coed from Idaho, Dorothy Johnson, 19, became a finalist in Miami Beach's "Miss U.S.A." contest...
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that the only thing more intolerable to lesser men than the success of a good man is his defeat. This second novel, which repeats the theme in a larger setting and at longer length, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes...