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...sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure...
...more escape than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new seat of folds.... We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, . . . for in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster and will never soften again...
...self-declared movement, pop art is more than just paint and plaster; it is also a clangor of nonmusic, a babble of tape recorders, and the "happening," a nonplay which requires one or two small rooms and the tolerance of the spectators. In short, a branch of show business. Last week Washington, earnestly aspiring to be the new cultural capital of the U.S., was deep in something called "The Pop Art Festival," staged by the Washington Gallery of Modern...
...husband suggests making a plaster cast of the temple, raising the cast by steel cables to the top of the cliff, and there casting a replica...
...first, the infants are strapped to specially molded plaster stools on which they learn the sensation of sitting upright. Then, after being fitted with their first artificial limb, the children learn that a small movement of a muscle can trigger the hook fingers of an artificial arm. They learn how to use a prosthesis to reach rattles that hang on their beds. Gradually, dexterity improves until they are able to pick up objects and pull themselves upright in their cribs. Even those with deformed feet are taught to walk...