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Crimson attempts to play offensive hockey in the first period backfired as the Bruins continually used their speed to get free behind the Harvard defense. Their first goal, their only pretty one of the night, came at 7:34, as Bruce Darling sprung Chapman open with a 30-foot pass...
Apres ski thrives on mass participation, and as skiers throng to the hinterlands, nightclubs and movies have begun to materialize in even the stodgiest rural hamlets. Bustling skiing communities with their own peculiar mores have sprung up within sleepy farm towns...
Curiously enough, it was another intervening labor leader, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, who broke the deadlock. Apparently looking for a way out of the trap his own stubbornness had sprung, the pressmen's Frazee paid a clandestine visit to Reuther at the U.A.W.'s Solidarity House and humbly asked for help. "I'll make a compromise proposal," Reuther said, "but I won't argue." Within a day, both the papers and Frazee's pressmen accepted the terms...
Patchwork Scrapper. So popular were Calder's mobiles that manufacturers have since imitated them in mass production. Calder himself has clung to few mechanical tools, prefers rivets instead of welding, paints his mobiles with brushes instead of spraying them. Sprung from the modern esthetic that sees wisdom in childhood, his work is a comment on, rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated...
Preying and playing on the fallibility in vision is the new movement of "optical art" that has sprung up across the Western world. No less a break from abstract expressionism than pop art, op art is made tantalizing, eye-teasing, even eye-smarting by visual researchers using all the ingredients of an optometrist's nightmare. Manhattan's commercial galleries are beginning to find space on their walls for it, and the Museum of Modern Art is planning an op show titled "The Responsive Eye" early next year. Says the show's organizer, Curator William Seitz: "These works...