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...amphitheater is made of wood, and its vast roof arches gently overhead like the soundboard of a huge violin. It begins to resonate to the sonorities of Dvořák's Eighth Symphony. "Wood is the best acoustic material there is," Gottschalk says. "Concrete is dead. Wood is alive." Appearing peaceful and intent, hearing nothing that requires correction, he lets the Dvořák build and flow...
...monks prefer not to focus on themselves as individuals. They see their real work as creating a community, "striving," as Brother Elias puts it, "to become one heart, one mind, one spirit." Brother Mark says, "Our choice is one another. Not wood chopping, music writing, pottery throwing, but to live the Gospel...
...rather lengthy book is the final three chapters. The 1981 season summary contains no recap of the season or the World Series--only a bitter diatribe against the strike. Another recounts an afternoon spent watching a Yale-St. Johns contest beside pre-World War I pitching hero Smokey Joe Wood. The final article covers the ups and downs of a once-great college pitcher bouncing around the minor leagues. These pieces, each moving by itself, make a strong statement together. The true fan, infected with an inherent love for baseball, has not abandoned the game. But the squabblings...
...Joan Mondale for the vice-presidential mansion in Washington, B.C. Alan Siegel, 43, of Lake Hill, N.Y., recently exhibited a bent poplar chair that looks, he suggests, like "a smiling bandit." Other well-known "fun" pieces include a table by Wendell Castle, 50, of Scottsville, N.Y., with a carved wood hat and briefcase...
...contrast, the work of former Painter Peter Danko, 33, of Alexandria, Va., is an advance along the simple path cut by Nakashima. Danko's furniture represents an intriguing blend of the sculptural and the functional, with a healthy respect for the natural qualities of the wood. More over, pieces like the Danko Chair are light in weight and appearance and thus well suited to small apartments. With delight ful ingenuity, Danko is experimenting with folding chairs of molded plywood. One of the plies is a bendable, plastic material, so the chair folds without metal hinges...