Word: sentimentalists
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...empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise a hard-edge painter of interest, displays an L-shaped item that dully fulfills its title, Blue White Angle. Paul Frazier, 44, represents himself with Space Manifold #5, an irregular cruciform abstraction that would kiss Rodin off as a sentimentalist...
Today, 90% of U.S. felony defendants are found guilty. Only a sentimentalist would argue that most of them are really innocent. But thoughtful lawyers agree that U.S. criminal justice has been "rationed" all too long. As Director Decker sees it, public defenders should now face public prosecutors in every county in the land, guaranteeing "an even match in .our adversary system of trial procedures...
...avant-garde of 20 years ago, Rodin was an overwrought sentimentalist. The great cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (whose own retrospective is finishing a nationwide tour) ruefully recalls how appalled he was when someone told him that old Rodin had liked a Lipchitz sculpture. "What could be so wrong with my little sculpture that Rodin liked it?" he asked. But Lipchitz came to realize that though Rodin dealt with the human figure, he was breaking it down, exploring form, probing its mysteries much as the cubists were. Rodin's Walking Man, thought to be a study...
...sentimentalist, Director Hilliard be came alarmed at the high cost of ignorance in 1959, when the recession receded but relief rolls kept climbing. In a survey of able-bodied reliefers, he discovered that 50% were "functional illiterates," incapable of reading street signs, want ads, or the simplest instructions, and therefore unable to perform even most "service" jobs...
Gary went on to become an authentic hero as a bomber pilot. Of his entire squadron, only half a dozen came out of the war alive. Admirable sentimentalist that he is, Gary prefers to believe that his mother took care of him. Regularly throughout the war, he had gotten letters from Mama, the one human being who could keep him going. But when he got back to Nice, a captain and the hero his mother had always said he would be, he learned that she had died of diabetes 3½ years before. But before her death, and knowing...