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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after two rounds, then changed his mind, and wound up 20 strokes behind Winner Julius Boros-his worst showing in eight years on the pro tour. At that, Palmer picked up and headed for the family homestead in Latrobe, Pa., to think about something else besides golf for a spell...
Stanford White sketched before he could spell his name, painted with lyric proficiency before he was out of his early teens. But Artist John La Farge (who claimed that he diverted Henry James from painting to writing) advised White that his bent was not for art but architecture; more money in it, too, and recognition. Architect White won both, designing such famed monuments as Manhattan's Washington Arch, Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Century and Metropolitan Clubs, and many of the buildings of New York University. But whenever he had an available moment, in summer trips through the Hudson...
...materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that art can shape lend the current collection its saving measure of excitement. In Optical Hopes and Illusions, bicycle riders ride cross-canvas to turn into eyeglasses. Etcetera seems nothing more than a row of bright blue buildings, ends up spelling out its title. Making the Fur Fly, Ray's homage to Georges Braque. glues a bird-shaped piece of pelt on a solid background. Signature looks to be a single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves...
...will, of which Hitler was an absurd and gruesome caricature, fits no more into the true Western tradition than does the soul's meek expectation of nirvana or the patient Russian submission to worldly tyranny. "If it were not for the religious element," says Hocking, "individualism would spell chaos...
...chocolate makers have become the biggest spenders and the most aggressive marketers. Last year they won 51% of the market, to outsell the makers of traditional British toffee for the first time. Ads for chocolates look like U.S. cigarette commercials; the bosomy blonde, blossoming bower and babbling brook that spell menthol smokes for conditioned U.S. audiences are in England frequently a backdrop for a chocolate bar. "I like plain, simple things," coos one unidentified model in the ads. "Plain chinchillas. Simple sables. And plain chocolate." This kind of talk seems to suit plain old Cadbury's and Rowntree...