Word: vandalization
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...structure of squared concrete tubes, cantilevering in all directions above a five-sided pool, it was designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, 38, who won the commission in a competition judged by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. To cap it all, on the eve of dedication day last week some vandal stenciled QUEBEC LIBRE in red paint on the fountain...
...other officials, including Director Thomas Hoving of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. A crowd of several hundred people collected in the plaza below. Suddenly there was a ripple, a movement, a collective rush to the pool. For there, stomping about waist-deep in the water, was the vandal of the night before: black sweater and beard, dark hair hanging below his shoulders and a new can of red paint, with which he was vigorously stenciling another QUEBEC LIBRE on the fountain. He was not arrested. He was, as it turned out, none other than the artist himself, Armand...
...Father Daniel Berrigan [Aug. 24] does not impress me. Someone who knowingly and deliberately breaks the law and then tries to evade the consequences of his actions is not a man of principle-he is a vandal. The moral force of his opposition to laws that he considers unjust comes when he accepts the responsibility and the consequences of his actions. As Thoreau stated in Civil Disobedience: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison...
...beneath his coat and heaved it through a side window in the front seat. The cop jumped out, but his riot helmet, improperly fastened, flew off his head and rolled into the gutter. By the time he had retrieved it, the crowd had flowed through the trucks and the vandal was out of sight...
Saddest of all, perhaps, an unidentified vandal slipped into the Met's European-paintings gallery and scratched a small H into the corners of ten paintings (none was seriously damaged). "An act by a very sick individual," said Hoving. He was hardly fazed, however, by the complaints about the show. "From time to time, a great institution must do something highly experimental," he observed. "It is necessary to keep alive and thinking...