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...recalled: "More than anyone else, Hawthorne appreciated the fact that plane relationships are better expressed through comparative values of color than through drawing." Adds Abstractionist Hans Hofmann, who became a part of the Provincetown colony in 1934: "As a painter, Hawthorne cast aside every doctrine-so that he might surpass the limitations of calculation and construction...
...such a career, there co-exist two standards of achievement: (1) a striving to surpass the best work done in a field, and (2) a working measure, seeking patiently to surpass oneself. The first suggests a goal (ill-defined, but alluring), the second a method of operation. The fairly common case where ambition is unbounded, but also unsure of how to proceed (lacking the second standard of achievement), produces a sense of frustration, which can become an excuse either for not trying at all or for finally accepting the mechanical comforts of the course system...
...influence is pervasive nonetheless, for in differing degrees both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are operating on a national competitive ethic. The Soviets have always made competitive success a national goal. Witness the motto on their state seal: "To Catch Up and Surpass." In meeting the Soviet challenge the formerly isolationist United States have slowly moved toward a similar competitive orientation...
Neither McNiff nor New York seriously hopes to surpass the Library of Congress, which just passed the 39-million-volume mark...
Banning the bomb has become an outdoor sport that threatens to surpass bird watching in Britain. On Good Friday last year, 20,000 demonstrators gathered at Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston, carrying knapsacks and pushing prams; they thoroughly snarled Easter-weekend traffic as they made their annual trek 54 miles east to London, winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde...