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...game of baseball in a larger social context. According to the owner's canon, baseball is the place where racism, class inequality and other forms of discrimination do not exist. "You're all ball-players and you all put you're pants on one leg at a time." Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Dodgers before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and of course the ball-players responded with warmth and affection to their new "colored brother." Or so say the sportswriters and owners. Bouton, on the other hand, tells of Elston Howard, the beloved Yankee catcher, who was forced...
...Frank Rickey, manager of the fur department, came out of the store and asked what the demonstrators were doing. They explained that they did not intend to harass Raymond's or its customers, but rather to bring attention to the problem of animal species whose existence were endangered by the fur industry...
...Rickey invited them into the store, and agreed to remove the furs which they found objectionable if they would remove the pickets...
...with holes, marked by a lightness and informality of both profile and spirit. In the main gallery, the viewer's eye is carried roofward by a giant Alexander Calder mobile that sways like a living totem, then diverted by a gently teetering pair of silver spears by George Rickey. Against one wall, Eva Hesse has lined up a row of 30 glistening clear fiberglass half-box forms, whose intentionally sloppy casting endows them with a bubbly effervescence. Charles Ross's Plexiglas prisms are filled with mineral oil, so that museumgoers see other museumgoers distorted through them, edged...
CONSTRUCTIVISM: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION by George Rickey. 305 pages. Braziller...