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...Ivan's Eden, the watchword is "affection training," as opposed to the old whip-and-fear method. It begins in the nursery, where attendants spend the day fondling the young animals, in keeping with Tors's dictum that "you cannot love without touching." The more dangerous species are stroked on their "affection zones" with long, sponge-tipped "petting sticks," which are gradually reduced in length until an attendant can, for instance, tickle the thorax of a tarantula with his fingers. In "secondary school," the animals are put through an obstacle course in preparation for such script demands...
Quality was the watchword of Paul Sachs, or "P.J.S.," as he was known. Recalls Chicago Director Cunningham: "He believed that when you put your money down for a French painting, it should be good enough to hang in the Louvre, a British painting good enough to hang in the National Gallery." And Sachs frankly believed in educating an elite. This was not so much a belief in art for the few but in art understood sufficiently by an elite to enable them to entice the many...
Levenson makes it plain that, sociologist Big Think to the contrary, the best weapons to use against poverty are always homemade. "My environment was miserable," he says. "I was not. Poverty never succeeded in degrading our family. We were independently poor. Our watchword was a variant of the adage, 'Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.' We did curse the darkness quite a bit, but we also lit candles, fires, lamps-and we studied by all of them...
Less spectacularly but not less decisively, Protestantism has been stirred by a flurry of experimentation in liturgy, church structure, ministry. In this new Christianity, the watchword is witness: Protestant faith now means not intellectual acceptance of an ancient confession, but open commitment?perhaps best symbolized in the U.S. by the civil rights movement?to eradicating the evil and inequality that beset the world...
...hard on the heels of op artists, who address their work to the retina, has come a widespread number of "kinetic" artists, who try to combine mechanics and art. They are exploiting the human eye's capacity to perceive motion, and their work is the newest watchword on the fast-moving international gallery scene. Manhattan's avant-garde Jewish Museum is currently showing 102 works by kineticism's established practitioners, Jean Tinguely and Nicolas Schöffer. In Boston's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Matisse's grandson Paul is showing his Kalliroscope, an oozing suspension...