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FROM the moment when living organisms appeared in the seas billions of years ago, they seemed driven by an instinctive urge to move beyond their own environment. Out of the dark waters they groped across aeons, toward the light and land and air. Like those remote ancestors, man, too, has...
∙Let us surrender to all rebellions: they will end by turning against themselves, against us ... Perhaps then we shall regain our supremacy over time; unless, the other way around, struggling to escape the calamity of consciousness, we rejoin animals, plants, things, return to that primordial stupidity of which, through...
Symbol in a Snail. Curator William S. Rubin, in his "Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art this spring, went all out to pry little-known but major Mirós from private collectors. Rubin now feels that Miró's 1925 The Birth...
Anthropologists unearthed him in 1856, and described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as...
Negotiator Xuan Thuy, shook hands with him in the hotel's rococo, crystal and gilt Grand Salle before moving behind the closed doors of conference room No. 5. Leading off, Thuy set a strident tone that prevailed all week. He accused the U.S. of "monstrous crimes" and repeated the...