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Myth No. 2: Americans are slaves to "gadgets." Revel's solemn counterclaim: "The truth is that there is no country in the world where automobiles, for example, are treated more like ordinary tools-or where people drive less like maniacs." Furthermore, making an assertion that will particularly outrage Europeans, he insists that "aesthetic" imagination is "more pronounced in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world...
Hurst's heuristic methods have begun to achieve amazing results. Reports TIME Correspondent Jacob E. Simms: "There is a certain hardness to the student body. The usual buzzing and chatter are absent. An almost solemn silence permeates the hallways. Intense arguments go on in the student lounge. Even basketball seems to be played with unusual seriousness." The dropout rate has plummeted; this year less than 10% of Hurst's students failed to complete each semester. Members of last year's graduating class were accepted at colleges from the University of Illinois to Howard to Berkeley...
...ordinary life, imaginary numbers of a somewhat different kind seem to have become even more useful. From solemn public officials and eager corporations, from newspapers, television (and even, some dare say, from newsmagazines) comes a googol of seemingly definitive and unarguable statistics. They tell us, with an exactitude that appears magical, the number of heroin addicts in New York and the population of the world. By simulating reality, they assure us that facts are facts, and that life can be understood, put in order, perhaps even mastered...
...over. If Profaci could eliminate one of them, what about the rest? The Gallos committed the unthinkable: they rebelled against their Mafia boss. Not only that, they kidnaped five Profaci henchmen, holding them captive until the boss agreed to give them a bigger piece of the action. The solemn agreement lasted until the hostages were released. Then a fierce three-year gang war broke out. Before it was over, nine mobsters had been killed. 15 were wounded and three disappeared...
...with helium, argon and other gases. When an electric current passes through the cylinders, the ionized gas lights up-rose-white, orange, deep blues, greens and purples. By controlling the gas flow, Harrison produces extraordinary changes of form in the light-bubbles, disks, even artificial lightning. The effect is solemn and exquisitely meditative; it is also wholly pictorial, without a hint of gimmickry. The room is Harrison's private homage to Mark Rothko: "I made a very specific reference to him," he says. "This was my way of acknowledging a man who I thought was involved in a kind...