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...seemed to be running a one-man academy of stones and bones. "Less is more, and Moore is a bore" was what one heard from English art students hip to Anthony Caro and David Smith, and the sentiment was echoed by people who had forgotten, or not known, his stubborn efforts to get modernism a hearing among the art-hating English 30 years before. All that is over, but the sculpture remains. When the best of it has been winnowed out -- which will take years, for the oeuvre is huge -- its grandeur of formal diction and intimacy of feeling will...
...Indian meetings and religious ceremonies (all this was to become Apologies to the Iroquois, 1960). Often rebuffed by Indians who didn't want to answer his questions, the foreign correspondent was pleased to find a group of Americans (who stoutly denied being American citizens) as proud, independent and stubborn as himself...
Even when it came to the issue of Central America, the most stubborn bone of contention in previous meetings, De la Madrid tried to strike a tone at once understanding and independent. He conceded that little success had been met by the Contadora Group, in which Mexico joins Colombia, Venezuela and Panama to work for a negotiated settlement of the region's conflicts. But in a pointed criticism of Washington's support of the contras in Nicaragua, he stressed that "violence will not take care of the problems...
...Philadelphia, strikers are led by Union Leader Earl Stout, a stubborn antagonist of Mayor Goode's, who has boastfully asserted that the city cannot run without him. At week's end, negotiations were under way, large numbers of workers were returning to their jobs, and Stout hinted that an end to the strike might be in sight. That was a hopeful sign since, as one negotiator for the city saw it, "Earl will settle when he wants to settle...
...danced around their questions. Why did he not end all the speculation and say he would not run for President? asked one reporter. "I don't want to lock the door against eventualities that I don't even understand or imagine," replied Cuomo, as if instructing a class of stubborn undergraduates. "I'm not God. If you have a crystal ball, if you can tell me what's going to happen, fine. But I can't." Asked directly whether he would pledge to serve a full four years as he promised last time, Cuomo was uncharacteristically brief. "No," he replied...