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...some artists, all this permissiveness seemed the reverse of a challenge. They declared that they found the wall, the floor, the room, the very idea of making an object, confining. So they have struck out for wilder shores of the imagination, for deserts and plains, mountaintops and ocean floors, claiming all nature as their canvas and every living thing-from molds and yeasts to cows and their own bodies-as their material...
...change through the system does not imply an acceptance of the whole system. Forbearance to use violence does not connote complacency; militant impatience does not require violence in order to prove itself." Brewster took pride in pointing out that most Yale students "have taken the measure of the wilder extremes and found them wanting...
Last week an event took place that far overshadows any of these disasters, and in fact any in the past several decades. In his 1927 novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder wrote: "Those catastrophes which lawyers shockingly call the 'acts of God' were more than usually frequent. Tidal waves were continually washing away cities; earthquakes arrived every week and towers fell upon good men and women all the time." He was writing of Peru...
Those attending are Drinkwater, a former Boston lawyer, Philip P, Chase, former University Marshal, George H. Wilder, former New York stockbroker, and Frank W. Buxton, former publisher of the Boston Herald...
...wilder urban system is Dorothy Proctor's plot to install a love-in on every park bench. Her life-sized fiberglass grandmas, boy-with-dogs, and hand-holding couples may be seated throughout Boston. Each sculpture would leave room for six live people on a bench. So, according to the artist, "You could put your head on a girl's lap or lean against Grandma, and a child could pat the dog without damage to either." A less cozy proposal specifices concrete benches-figures and bench would be cast as one piece...