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...sort of spirit moves the subject. By the same token, art initially served a practical function: it was believed that by symbolically capturing prey (one captured a portion of its spirit by painting or sculpting it) the chances of success in the field were much greater. What may appear pure ignorance and superstition to Western man has produced some of the most expressive works of art known. The collection of Eskimo sculpture in the second Pucker-Safrai gallery is a perfect example of an art free of preconceptions about its own nature, unhampered by stultifying theories. These soapstone carvings...
...Edwardian home. By presenting Shaw's play, which was first produced in London in 1913 as a reaction to Victorian morals, Bloomfield hopes to present, a picture of what Edwardian England was really like. The result should be better than any Henry Higgens ever got from Eliza--pure entertainment...
...family is changing, says the council, it is not-as many sociologists fear-collapsing. Parenthood is still "deeply rewarding," and more than 98% of all children in the U.S. still live with one or both of their parents. The greatest enemy of the family, says the council, is poverty, pure and simple. "One child out of four in America is being actively harmed by a 'stacked deck' created by the failings of our society...
...matter what you tell the incoming sophomores," Rafto says, "it's a little bit more and a little bit harder than you think." Quite simply, it is a pure athletic test, one that drives runners to limits that they might have once thought unattainable...
Lardner is best remembered for the great number of baseball stories, news columns and short stories which captured the essence of American life at the turn of the century. Reading Lardner's work is almost more of a lesson in American history than pure pleasure reading, and it follows that Jonathan Yardley's biography of the legendary journalist, Ring, is almost more of a history book than a biography. But it is a book of the sort that true lovers of baseball and a "progressive" minded American society can relish, perhaps with an added touch of jealousy...