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Today Hankchampion looks less aggressive than it did 15 years ago. It still transmits an enormous sense of energy; what counts is the vigor of the form, the expansive thrust of its members driving into space. But this syntax of angles, which makes his best sculptures change so compellingly and unpredictably when one walks around them, had to wait. It would be five years before Di Suvero could work regularly on this scale again. In March 1960 he was nearly killed in an elevator accident. His back and left leg were broken, and the doctors said that he would never...
Yale is of two minds about itself. Some people, with persuasive sincerity, maintain that Yale is on the whole normal--different from other prestigious Ivy League colleges in degree but not in kind. Others, with no less vigor, hold that Yale has a special, feverish intensity that sets it apart from its brethren--and Yale's intensity, some say, shades over into sickness and depravity...
...woman writer, he sometimes allows his language to partake of sexual stereotyping. Describing two characters in her novel The Custom of the Country, for example, he writes: Marvell also, as it were, embodies Edith's feminine side; Moffatt her masculine side, her immense energy, her decisiveness in action, the vigor of her ironic humor. Later, he again refers to what he terms Wharton's "masculine vein of satiric humor...
...head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. His assignment was to dismantle the organization and its "Great Society" programs, but before he could, Nixon made him a top White House aide in 1970. Three years later the President named Rumsfeld U.S. Ambassador to NATO, where he worked with characteristic vigor, although his chores were largely routine and ceremonial...
...relentless hungering after the lights of Broadway. When Minahan is on stage--which is most of the show--he is absolutely riveting; the excitement he projects virtually swallows up all the other characters. It's an amazing feat, especially since Minahan, though a capable dancer, sings with more vigor than melody. In the end, though, the supreme conviction he brings to his role is what counts...