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...gymnasium in the Minneapolis suburb was hot and airless. Students squirmed T in the bleachers while a panel of teachers and politicians discussed the quality of education. One shirtsleeved speaker, however, held the audience rapt. "I just have a feeling that maybe the generation that went through the Great Depression and the great war, World War II, maybe we thought we ought to make things easier for our children," mused the President. "Maybe we're partly responsible for what has happened." Ronald Reagan's main message to the forum in Hopkins, Minn., sponsored by his National Commission...
...reforms inspired warm tributes from many of his inmates as well as imitation by other penologists; of a stroke; in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three semi-autobiographical books and the inspiration for a movie (Duffy of San Quentin), he campaigned ceaselessly against capital punishment...
...Wilson's smoothly polished conversational writing advances, with plenty of one-liners and an occasional sight gag. Talley's Folly turns from a straightforward romantic sit-com into a much more sensitive character evocation. Like a stripped-down Ibsen drama, it forces its two characters to excavate the most airless tunnels of their memories...
...thing about these Southern Writers, of course, is their fabulous underdog literature--a result, popular psychology goes--of the pain and trauma of the Civil War--a regional bad childhood which now, over one hundred years later, still finds expression in the airless vaults of literature. There's Thomas Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and that huge shadow which is Faulkner. Southern Writers are supposed to be totems of our national pain, and to question their existence as a group becomes something of a sacriligious act. We need this "South" for reasons which are deeply buried. We need...
Such paintings suggest the strength of the Neue Sachlichkeit tendency to paint a world beyond the spectator's control - not Leger's confidence in technology, but glimpses of an airless place, always the city, with looming buildings, threatening, gray and crystalline, where the exact divisions between things seem to mirror the divisions and conflicts of class that concerned many of the painters. In particular, they obsessed Grosz. One of his friends called him "a Bolshevik in painting, nauseated by painting." This was not quite true, for although Grosz once declared that compared with the practical tasks of political...