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...Traditionalist. At the entrance stands a creation by Robert Rauschen-berg-an old crate that rests on a post embedded in a sofa pillow and covered with bits of photographs and newspapers, crowned with a stuffed rooster and wired to light up like a juke box every few seconds. But at 34, Rauschenberg already finds that "I now run the risk of being an extremely traditional painter compared to the young people." Just as Rauschenberg lets his "paintings" grow into environment, the newcomers seem to be trying to suck the environment...
...whole thing, explains 47-year-old Composer Cage, was a simple exercise in "indeterminancy." Back in his relatively traditionalist period, Cage composed pieces for percussion orchestras, featuring prepared pianos and weird electronic effects. But now, he says, he has no further interest in "expressing myself. I have no desire to improve on creation." The new object is to surprise not only the audience but the performers and the composer himself. When he was asked to write a piece for the Circle in the Square Composers' Showcase series, Cage sat down and worked out his basic time scheme according...
...private-chaplain status at their country estate, Aldenham. With this haven in view, Knox secured the English hierarchy's commission to translate the New Testament. From the beginning Knox assumed that he was to redo the entire Bible. This led to misunderstandings with the hierarchy, further aggravated by traditionalist opposition to the translation as it progressed. In return for a modest stipend for living expenses while he was working on the translation, Knox signed over his copyright to the hierarchy. At the time of his death, ?50,000 had been realized from sales of the Knox Bible. The monsignor...
...change, especially the pleasant one of "public cuddling," in which young lovers hugged and squeezed each other on Friday and Saturday nights in Urk's 40O-yard-long main street, while around them a circle of shouting and laughing boys and girls teased the lovers ("Afterward," said one traditionalist, "the brides were properly led to the altar...
...Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down 100,000 gold dinars to gild the original dome. The new aluminum one will look the same, and at a fraction of the price...