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...sense, the formal foreign policy lessons that the U.S. learned from Viet Nam have been easier to absorb than the deeper psychological and personal meanings, which will be years in unfolding. Says Columbia University Historian Henry Graff: "America has learned for the first time that not everything it attempts comes off successfully. What we regarded as decency, honor and pride were not implemented in the world satisfactorily to make others see us as we thought we ought to be seen. That this could have happened to us is what The Deer Hunter is really all about...
Psychologist Figley feels the trend toward dealing more openly with the war will be good for the disaffected veterans. After World War II, the long voyages home aboard troopships gave soldiers a chance to talk out their experiences and begin to absorb them. Viet Nam returnees often came home by jet, singly or in small groups. What is more, they came home to a society that was not anxious to hear about their traumas. Says Veteran Bill De Bruler: "After exchanging experiences, you feel cleansed in an odd way and you forget for a while that what...
With its two dimensions, painting can only represent space. But sculpture has three. It can absorb space into its own fabric. One of the key moments in this development came in 1912, when Pablo Picasso, then 31, snipped and bent some sheet metal into the semblance of a guitar. It was a guitar that might have been lifted from one of his own cubist still lifes, an open object defined by thin planes. The folding of the tin imitated the layered, overlapped look of the paintings: it was cubism made literal. This battered-looking object is Exhibit...
...state commission bars the automatic pass-through costs to consumers, General Public Utilities. Metropolitan Edison's parent company, would shoulder the burden. General Public Utilities has 177,000 stockholders, but the insurance Metropolitan Edison carries would absorb the costs...
Health officials feared that the pastures where Hershey cows graze might be contaminated by radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Cows' milk could absorb cancer-causing radioactive material from the grass which the cows eat, the officials added...