Word: patchworked
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...guide to New York. No, not even by the CRIMSON. The City is too manifold, too mercurial. Its famous attractions are too familiar, its lesser-known places and preoccupations too sprawling and too involuted for anything less than a digital computer to set down the whole patchwork, in all its brilliance and multiplicity. New York is unlickable...
...Patchwork Scrapper. So popular were Calder's mobiles that manufacturers have since imitated them in mass production. Calder himself has clung to few mechanical tools, prefers rivets instead of welding, paints his mobiles with brushes instead of spraying them. Sprung from the modern esthetic that sees wisdom in childhood, his work is a comment on, rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated...
...studios in Roxbury, Conn., and Saché, France, Calder builds up his balanced mobiles by trial and tumble. Says he: "It's like making a patchwork quilt. You can't predict." A mobile can be tiny as a hummingbird; others are so outsize that airports find them favorite lobby decor. One stabile, his Teodelapio in Spoleto, Italy, is the largest metal sculpture in modern times; it is 59 ft. high, weighs 30 tons, and trucks can pass underneath it. "If it's impeccable," he says, "it can be made into any scale...
Harvard men are even more dogged than their Radcliffe counterparts in insisting that awesome individualism and, consequently, unfathomable multiplicity, are their only measure. To snip ungainly squares out of the brilliant patchwork that is Harvard would be the most impudent and absurd of tasks. Harvard men will not suffer themselves to be set in little boxes. Nor should they...
...Italy, Economist Guido Carli, governor of the central bank, has prescribed strong medicine for the country's debilitating inflation. With the patchwork government of Premier Aldo Moro too weak to take effective action, Carli on his own tightened credit and restricted borrowing from abroad. A convincing negotiator, he was called upon by Moro to persuade socialists and labor leaders to temper their own wage demands and agree to reduced government spending. One result of Carli's influence: Italy's trade balance is improving for the first time in two years...