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characteristics.  I hope it does not leave me to the end.  I want always to go further.  
I'll tell you a story.  I was susposed to be in Philadelphia last Monday to appear on a sculpture symposium panel, but the doctor said, 'No, I should be in bed!'  So, anyway, I sent a message to Philadelphia.  After I had said the serious things I wanted to finish with something funny.  I told them this story.  Someone related to me a conversation about sculpture and my work in particular that he had had with a well known famous contemporary sculptor.  This sculptor said, 'Oh, Lipchitz was good forty years ago, but now he has cold feet.'  For me this makes no difference, but let's talk about my feet.  Forty years ago to make a head or a face without a nose took alot of courage.  Today it takes ten times more courage to put the nose back in.  At twenty years of age it's easy to be courageous.

INTERVIEWER:  Then you feel you are still a 'modern'?

LIPCHITZ:  A short while ago, while I was having my lunch, the telephone rang.  My wife answered it.  Two people asked if the couldn't visit Mr. Lipchitz.  'What for?' They were reporters writing for a local magazine.  I said let them come right now.  'I have to ask my Mommie,' the telephone voice replied.  Ten or fifteen minutes later a girl of 11 1/2 and a boy of 9 1/2 arrived.  I received them very