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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Museum of Fine Arts in its current exhibition, The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya. For Goya was molded by the age of Rousseau and Voltaire and the French Revolution--The Age of Reason. For Goya, as well as for his contemporaries, a belief in human reason was the answer to an age of corrupt religion, incompetent monarchy and political turmoil. If Goya's portraits, commissioned as they were by the Spanish aristocracy, show only a glimmer of his belief in man as the measure of all things, the etchings he made as an independent artist need no such subtlety...
...after Goya's death in 1828), the Caprichos and the Desastres de la Guerra. These last two, especially, complement each other, echoing Goya's experiences in Spanish society, his understanding of the irrational forces that make reason so difficult to express, and his conviction that reason is the only answer to these forces...
...tend to treat the subject of death, as well as their capacity to drop grudges at the grave side. He raises an interesting question about whether the Ford White House has considered the nature of a possible Nixon funeral. But it is hardly a query crying out for an answer. What does need answering, in journalistic terms, is why Raspberry-and the editors who published his column-displayed such poor taste in speculating on the funeral of someone seriously...
...stumbled across Nate Shaw, then 84, a onetime union member who had served twelve years in prison for resisting the trumped-up confiscation of a neighbor's property back in 1932. A single question, "Why did you join the union?" spurred the black man into an eight-hour answer. More than 120 hours of taped reminiscences eventually followed. As Shaw poured out his life, he and Rosengarten quite literally made history...
Three wars and a couple of eras of affluence later, Manchester has looked back at his younger country (and presumably his younger self) and asked: What happened in the 40 years between? A natural, even a commonplace question, but to Manchester a question deserving a literal answer, and for over 1,300 pages he tries to give...