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...Touch of the Heart. Zorach is still guided by the shapes of nature-the swirl of a grain, the contour of a stone-but his art is as emotional as it is visual. The Wild Beast has been domesticated, but with such an ever fresh simplicity that he cannot fail to touch the heart. "My children, my wife, the animals I know, the people who enter my life," says he, "things that are deeply a part of me and in which I see a relationship to life through movement and form and inner spirit-these are my material...
Whether realistic or abstract, sculpture is essentially form that has been frozen: the trick is to make the form throb with life. The abstract constructions that lined the walls of Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last week gave the illusion in their own ways. One piece was a swirl that seemed to spill from the ceiling; another was a maze of darting shafts (see color opposite). Some of the sculptures, when touched, danced like plants swaying under water; others, when plucked, sang like a forest in the wind. Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 46, is only one of many artists...
Even in the summertime, the north wall of der Eiger is still one of the great climbs in the world-17 men have died there since 1935. But not until this month did any climbers dare tackle the north wall in the winter, when the storms that swirl down from the peaks can snuff out a party in one capricious attack...
...rushing, bruising battle that leaves its gigantic players gasping for breath long after each game. Forcing the pace is a rule that requires a team to take a shot within 24 seconds of getting the ball. This means that at least 75% of the action develops from the kaleidoscopic swirl of the instant, and that play is dominated...
...tradition, the Millrose Games annually begin the frantic swirl of big-time indoor track at Madison Square Garden. And by tradition, the event has been stag night for the competitors. But last week Millrose officials saw fit to schedule a special 60-yd. dash for the ladies. The reason: to give the New York track crowd its first look at Tennessee State's willowy Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph. 20. triple gold medal winner and the outstanding athlete at last summer's Olympic Games in Rome...