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Nevelson's account of her childhood and youth has the deliberate quality of fiction, simplified and pruned of inconvenient facts. She presents herself as an infant prodigy, continuously inspired, the servant of her gifts, every part of whose life, even loneliness, was an act of choice. She says she knew at five that she was going to be an artist, and by seven that her art would be sculpture. Art did give Nevelson a sense of security and a vocation. "From the first day in school to the day I graduated," she says, "everyone gave...
Many will argue that registration is only a first step, that there is little need to resist until some civil servant starts pulling draft numbers out of a hat. Those who oppose the draft must continue political efforts to stop its adoption, but resisting a draft once it goes into effect may come too late. It is time now to warn the nation that we do not plan to be used as tools in political campaigns or as missile fodder in wars that have no moral justification. If the unhappy day comes when a necessary and moral battle needs...
These were mere toys, however, compared with the persistent and half-forbidden dream of an artificial man.-* St. Albertus Magnus, the 13th century German philosopher, was said to have spent 30 years constructing a servant of "deceptively human appearance" out of metal, wood, glass, wax and leather. This creature allegedly opened the door to Albertus' cell at the Dominican monastery in Cologne, asked visitors what they wanted and even engaged them in polite conversation. The end of the legend was that Albertus' celebrated pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss...
...consistently cutting away from it. His camera looks over the sleeping army when Shingen is mortally wounded (shot, we later discover, by a tubby little sniper who simply into the dark). Before Ieyasu, Singen's snarling enemy, leaps onto a horse, Kurosawa cuts to the smirking face of his servant, and we only hear the man mount and gallop off. The vigorous sound-track, in fact, gives us amplified, overly heroic sounds--thundering hoofbeats, ringing shots, and a lush score by Shinichiro Ikebe that frequently reminds one of Star Wars--but with real feeling underneath the poses...
Although I agree that the federal civil servant should not be "cast in bronze," he should be recognized for his professionalism, dedication and loyalty. He pays more for his health, life insurance and pension plans, and generally works for less than his counterpart in private industry. Also, it is he, the civil servant, who must keep the wheels of Government in motion notwithstanding incompatible laws, changes in Administration and the myriad lobbyists who hover over the nation's capital...