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...modest hopes for fiction as a shaper of men and history. He saw the creative imagination as a mirror, an instrument of learning and reflection that does not change the march of worldly events. The mirror image will not change, he thought, unless human nature alters. If, against all odds, that happens, he wrote, "it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people -a very few people, but a few novelists are among them-are trying to do this." Forster was one of them...
...means of preserving for posterity some of the leading concert-hall interpretations of the day. Twenty-one years later, all that has changed. In a McLuhanesque transformation of musical culture, the LP is no longer a mere documentary device. For composers, listeners and musicians, it is a dramatic shaper of musical progress...
...primarily a symbolic poet, abandoned formal verse altogether. Now he spends nine hours a day gluing tiny fragments of newsprint and photographs onto plaques, bas-reliefs, house hold objects and sculpted forms. "I am still a poet," he says, "in the sense that I am a shaper of symbolic meanings from information spewed out by our technological civilization. But I'm using the poetry of objects because I feel that the irrational logic of our time cries out for fresh expression...
...long as Brown stayed in a man-per-man defense, Harvard was in good shaper. But the zone kept the Crimson from penetrating so effectively that Harvard got only 18 shots in the entire 20-minute second period. Brown outshot Harvard 50 per cent to 44 per cent from the floor for the game...
...opening paragraph of their constitution defines the anarchists' reason for being as follows: "By nature man is a mythic designer, a shaper of energy. He molds the world after his imagination, because he is bound by no particular concept of his own potential. But throughout history man has been tricked into ignoring this power...