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...belong to earlier sculpture. Then, finally, there is the fragmentation of the body itself as a sculptural object. Rodin's work was permeated by his love of Michelangelo and the expressive power of the non-finito, the sculpture as unfinished block. But his use of the "partial figure"-the headless striding man, the ecstatically capering figure of Iris, Messenger of the Gods-went beyond such conventions as the body not yet released from its mass of raw stone, or even the broken antique fragment. It was a way of asserting the power of reduction, a demonstration that the expressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Old Man and the Clay | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...raises of $10,000, plus cost of living adjustments that would bring their top annual base salary to $73,420. The union threatened a coast-to-coast shutdown if the Reagan Administration continued to resist. A full walkout would ground about three-fourths of U.S. commercial flights. But a partial strike would probably be manageable, at least for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shake-Out in the Skies | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

When Ronald Reagan in April lifted the partial grain embargo against the Soviet Union that had been imposed by Jimmy Carter 16 months earlier, it was clear that the U.S. was willing to sell its harvest surplus. Not so certain was whether Moscow was willing to buy, and, if so, how much. After a day and a half of bargaining in London last week, American and Soviet trade officials announced that the U.S.S.R. will be allowed to purchase 3 million metric tons of wheat and 3 million metric tons of corn above the 8 million tons it is allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in Business Again | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...partial answer to those trying" to end the University's exemption from the property tax. Harvard community affairs spokesman. David Rosen said, adding. "It makes little sense to tax an institution that is performing a valuable public service...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Study Shows University Contributes $106 Million to Cambridge Economy | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...young lady to demurely express a desire to go to a graduate school before settling down. But by and large, the "Cliffies" were fortunate even to be depicted as superficial socialites, rather than mindless "greasy grinds" who never left the Quad. Consider an entry in a widely read "Harvardians Partial Glossary": "R--is for Radcliffe, 60 per cent of whose members marry Harvard...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Not-So-Silent Generation | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

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