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...before Harvard can start worrying about next week. It has to concentrate on Princeton. The Crimson hasn't lost to the Tigers in their last 21 meetings, though, and isn't likely to halt this tread tonight...
...those who try to organize One Religion of Brotherhood but fools rushing in where even the bravest angels fear to tread? At least we have received much encouragement from many who could scarcely be called foolish. Some comments on my Toward World Brotherhood which suggested and explained the Brotherhood Movement...
What if Swift and Armour were to give up packing meat and start selling block-frozen string -beans instead? What if Goodyear and Firestone were to stop producing bulging pneumatic rotundities that tread softly and squeal raffishly? And what if Boeing-maker and creator of the 707s-were to open its vast doors only to release a string of skinny, canvas-covered, piston-driven biplanes...
Picked from a quarter century of his production, the paintings comprise Still's life statement, which is roughly that of the DON'T TREAD ON ME FLAG. He has apparently found personal liberty-at the expense of being at odds with the outside world. "I'm not interested in illustrating my time," he says. "Our age is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage...
...opposite . . . I complied without any reserve with every genuine appeal to my artistic faculties, trampling those infantile barricades of the self-appointed dictators infesting the art fields." He glued together tiny collages, which he called Naturelles-accidental impastos of tissue paper, newsprint, and cardboard stamped with the tread of automobile tires or feet-in an uncanny anticipation of abstract expressionism. He took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s...