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THERE CAN'T BE MANY PEOPLE TOday who would think of putting Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) among the giants of 19th century French painting--Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet or Cezanne. Yet in his lifetime he was regarded as one of the greatest landscapists who ever lived, and for most cultivated Frenchmen the very idea of comparing a bungler like Cezanne with their beloved Corot would have seemed faintly barbarous. The big show that opened in Paris last month--drawings and prints at the Bibliotheque Nationale, 163 paintings at the Grand Palais--marking the 200th anniversary of Corot...
Part of the problem is, and long has been, the fakes. Corot was so popular on both sides of the Atlantic that he was, notoriously, the most faked artist of the 19th century. Corot painted 3,000 pictures, the saying went, of which 10,000 have been sold in America. His late work in particular--those silvery, atmospheric nymph-and-willow scenes like Memory of Mortefontaine, 1864, elegiac in tone and populated by rustic figures who descended from Claude Lorrain's shepherdesses--fetched record prices at a time when Impressionism still seemed rather daring to most Americans, and painting posthumous...
This insistence that "bad" speech is a direct cause of "bad" behavior was not new; 19th-century social purists and some leading conservative feminists fought to suppress "vicious" literature, as well as information about contraception. But a century later, the revival of a feminist anti-porn movement coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservative Republicanism buoyed by an intolerant religious right. Left-wing protests of pornography and "hate" speech, in general, helped legitimate growing right-wing censorship campaigns. Their targets differed--activists on the right focused on sex and AIDS education, the study of evolution...
...that average citizens of the Third Reich either did not know about the Holocaust or disapproved of it," says TIME's John Elson. "Some historians may also question whether anti-Semitism, while prevalent in pre-Hitler Germany, was as viciously eliminationist as the author argues." Elson notes that the 19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. "By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other...
...moment Harvard, practicing since February 1, is ranked 19th in the nation and would normally be expected to beat BC, who are annually ranked a couple of places behind Harvard...