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...couldn't miss Andrew Heiskell. At 6 ft. 5 1/2 in., he was usually the tallest man in the room. His easy bearing almost made you forget it, in the same way he could almost make you forget that he was a towering figure of 20th century journalism. In a career of 43 years at what was then Time Inc., he rose to chairman and CEO of a company that makes a profound and intricate product: journalism. As both a businessman and a journalist, he had an abiding passion that his company should produce to the highest standards...
...decided to write love poems as an oblique way of dealing with the 20th century crisis,” Chin said. “Everybody’s writing war poems. I think we’re forgetting how to feel and I think poetry is the genre that’s really closest to our hearts and I think I want to use it to tell a different story from the war story...
...great struggles of the 20th century were against fascism and then communism. As was made clear on Sept. 11, the great struggle of the 21st century will be between the forces of fanatic fundamentalism and those of tolerance. It is important to remember that America was not born with the virtue of religious tolerance, but had to acquire it. One of the myths is that the first settlers were advocates of religious freedom. In fact, the Puritans were very intolerant, not only of witches but also of any deviation from the tribal orthodoxy. The most arcane antinomian dispute ended...
...expanding civil rights over the next 17 years. And it's unrealistic to expect Hu to take any initiative on those fronts because his authority does not reside in his credentials as a visionary or ideologue. Having been on the losing side of the defining ideological battle of the 20th century, China's rulers since Mao Zedong have learned an unequivocal lesson: no one, not even Party leaders, can afford to use ideological solutions to resolve the country's social problems. Hu's power is solely dependent upon his legitimacy within the Party, which he maintains by balancing internal factions...
...woman who treats right angles as something best left to squares. Dignity and energy aren't always easy to reconcile. Hadid has managed a building that's both pumping and poised, heated but also very cool. You can't help thinking of Le Corbusier, one of the founders of 20th century architecture, who once said even modern architecture is too staid. "Jazz is more advanced," he wrote in 1931. "If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle." It's too bad he didn't live to see Hadid's performance in Cincinnati...