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...short, powerfully-built man, he bulges with fat and money. But his fat, instead of making him look slovenly, molds his face and body into a statue of a Rodin here, overwhelming and powerful in its grotesque beauty. He walks slowly and carries a cane andsends his daughters to Foxcroft and last week set a record for a buyer at Keeneland by spending $986,000 for 14 yearling horses...
...early clue is that a good deal of the author's satire of American manners has the unmistakable staleness of frozen dogma. "The American businessman who takes his wife to dinner is in trouble if he's in Europe. He can't follow the conversation. Rodin, Caravageio, Proudhon, who the hell are they?" This is like mocking the tail fins on American cars. It would be entirely possible to write a damaging satire of U.S. businessmen in Europe, but they don't have tail fins any more, and their wives serve up Caravaggio's chiaroscuro...
...this pessimistic view has been challenged in a recently published study, "Good Samaritanism: An Underground Phenomenon?" by Psychologists Irving M. and Jane Allyn Piliavin of the University of Pennsylvania and Judith Rodin of Columbia University. Based on experiments conducted by four teams of Columbia students in that grimy citadel of public indifference, the New York City subway system, the study finds that "people do, in fact, help with rather high frequency." The experiments, carried on over a period of 73 days, sought to determine in a realistic setting how a captive audience reacts to a person obviously ill, and another...
...Working under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, Darley and Latané found that a bystander is less likely to help in a group than when he is alone. A crowd, they concluded, tends to diffuse responsibility and makes it easier for the individual to do nothing. The Piliavins and Mrs. Rodin cautiously dispute this theory. They contend that under real-life conditions the average person-even in a group-will act when he clearly sees that another human being is in trouble...
...final breakthrough came later in the year when he carved The Kiss. Nothing could be less like Rodin's voluptuous lovers than these stolid, blocklike figures. Where Rodin's lovers flicker and twist, Brancusi's lovers face each other straight on and are barely scratched on the surface of the stone. The tender surface of Rodin's burnished bronze palpitates with life; Brancusi's pitted limestone is all idea...