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...makes a moving thing," says Sculptor George Rickey, "one is always surprised, no matter how preconceived the design, at the movement itself. It seems to come from elsewhere. The pliers only made the arrival possible." In recent years, Rickey's pliers - along with welding torch and sheet-metal cutters - have produced whole families of curiously moving metal sculptures that gambol and gimbal in the wind, slicing segments of time like pendulums or spinning until the sunlight splinters into a spectral blur (see color...
Speed of Light. Today kinetic artists see their art as expressing not only the machine but also nature itself. Says Critic-Sculptor George Rickey: "Nature is rarely still. She follows natural laws: gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry...
...Rickey not only changed the strategy of baseball management; he helped change the very tone of the game. In the early 1900s baseball was dominated by rowdies and gamblers. Rickey, a strict Methodist who never drank or swore (his strongest epithet was "Judas Priest!") and refused all his life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry...
Think as One. At Brooklyn in 1947, Rickey broke baseball's long-established color line, hiring Jackie Robinson as the major leagues' first Negro ballplayer. Rickey always insisted that his motives were practical, not social: "I don't care whether a man has green stripes and hair all over, as long as he can play the game." But he made no secret of his personal feelings about racial prejudice. "We will never think as a nation," he said, "until the entire nation is permitted to think...
...Branch Rickey might have become a practicing attorney-but he quit after trying one case. He might have been elected Governor of Missouri-but he chose to turn down the Republican nomination in 1940. From the day he played his first pickup game in the 1890s until he died last week at 83, baseball was his career, his hobby and his life. He never really rued his decision ("The game has given me joy"), but there were times when he wondered aloud, balancing a baseball in his palm: "This symbol? Is it worth a man's whole life...