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...BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND how CIA counterintelligence whiz James Jesus Angleton felt during his obsessive Ahab-like hunt in the 1960s for a Soviet mole who had buried himself in the agency. All life becomes reduced to a hall of mirrors, as someone you almost certainly know has constructed a dual identity of shocking duplicity...
...Pentagon said four U.S. soldiers who deserted their units in South Korea in the early 1960s are believed to be living in North Korea. One of the men was identified in a photo published by a South Korean newspaper last week as having appeared in a North Korean propaganda film, Nameless Heroes...
Since the late 1960s, Hodgkin's images have had a pronounced architectural character, influenced by Fernand Leger's "tubism" as well as by Vuillard. Grantchester Road, 1975, is an interior with a fireplace, and the indoor plants are of the same pictorial species as the green spreading palms in Hodgkin's Indian paintings. The separation of room and gaze gives Hodgkin's work its basic trope, that of peeping and peering--from culture (the room) into nature (everything else) and back again. It's not about seeing here and now but about the memory of having seen; not complete...
Certainly demographics is part of it. Very simply, there are fewer people in the most crime-prone category, which is males from the ages of 15 to 29. The crime spree that began in the 1960s was largely the work of baby boomers as they moved into those years. The same boomers are tipping into their 50s, an age when you're just right for fly fishing but not much good with a semiautomatic. The bad news, however, is that today's smaller cohort of teenagers is more prone to crime than its elders were at the same age. Among...
...context of art history sometimes fails in not being extensive enough. Her portraits of specific artists and writers are well-rendered but too often fall short. Her cultural analysis too often resorts to cliche, as in her description of the climate at Mapplethorpe's school, Pratt, during the early 1960s: "In November, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shattering America's idealistic view of itself. But no single incident triggered the sixties: instead, it was a steady buildup of events that converged, then exploded...