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...area last week, few residents believed the U.N. and NATO would live up to the promise they had made earlier in the summer to respond harshly if the Serbs attacked Sarajevo. "I am skeptical. So many people have died, and so many empty threats have been made," said hairdresser Admir Savic, 30, on the day after the massacre. "You can fool somebody once, maybe even twice, but nobody is going to believe you the third time. If they wanted to help us, they would have done it much earlier...
...right when he said that in Evans' photographs, "even the inanimate things, bureau drawers, pots, tires, bricks, signs, seem to be wait ing in their own patient dignity, posing for their picture." The last word on all these photographs, however, perhaps should go to James Agee, Evans' admir ing partner in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Describing his love and admiration for the poor sharecroppers whom he and Evans celebrated with "the motionless camera and the print ed word," Agee wrote: "Above all else, don't think...
Ever since then, Bernstein has been making it everywhere, with a versatility that" reminds his more enthusiastic admir ers of Renaissance Man. In an age of specialization, he refuses to stay put in any cultural pigeonhole. He is a Mickey Mantle of music, a brilliant switch hitter, conducting with his right hand and composing with his left?not to mention several other occupations that would be full-time careers for other men. Like a juggler whose oranges have suddenly acquired a demonic will of their own, Bernstein today finds himself with five careers in the air at once...
...polling places-and all night long Mrs. Keith listened to the pleas and sometimes to the sound of gunfire, as the aroused voters fought their way to the ballot boxes. Later she followed the bare foot, wondering peasants into the hitherto forbidden Malacañan Palace to sit admir ingly at the feet of their new President. Author Keith suffers from the conviction that every least thing that happens to her, her husband and their only son George is of overwhelming interest, and she records their conversation in some of the least plausible dialogue to appear outside Smilin' Jack...
...life of the conference has not yet been officially pronounced extinct," ran an editorial, "but it is already beyond the power of human aid. Only a miracle can save it. All the optimists confidently predicted for it has come to nothing. . . . Mr. MacDonald's intentions were admir able, but he made the same sort of blunder made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who reached a preliminary naval understanding with France in 1927, and then submitted...