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Part of Hitler's cultural program was the extirpation of what he called degenerate art--essentially, the kind of modernism of which Beckmann, in the early 1930s, was an acknowledged leader. Thus, soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, an entire apparatus of state censorship rolled over on Beckmann. His work was systematically removed from German museums; within five years, 600 of his paintings had been confiscated. After he and his wife fled, he lived and painted in Amsterdam for 10 years, using an old tobacco storeroom for a studio, and then in 1947 went to the U.S., where...
...post-ideological, slow-growth era of 1996 America, the election was won and lost on the Message--the ability to divine the hopes, fears and desires of voters, then craft the ideas, words and images that would best reach them. Bill Clinton built the most sensitive radar apparatus American politics has ever seen; Bob Dole looked at the same public mood but failed to read its meaning. This is the inside story of the Dole and Clinton message teams: the pollsters, strategists and admakers who made and sold their messages not only to the public but to the candidates...
...major contender, naturally, is the religious right, which controls much of the party apparatus on the state and local level. Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, is promising that in the next presidential race his 1.7 million-member organization will coordinate with other religious conservatives early in the Republican primaries to name their candidate. And this time, it won't be a halfhearted culture warrior like Dole...
...including TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, are facing the same obstacles as politicians. Both are victims of their own undoing. If you want to know why dwindling attention is being paid to traditional news sources, look to the money, power and special interests that control them and the political apparatus. In my community, the two main newspapers are part of the same conglomerate. Can we really expect unbiased news? When we can't be sure, we turn to other news sources. TOM BURNSIDE Cincinnati, Ohio Via E-mail...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "What should American foreign policy and national security look like?...Until you have an answer to the... question, I think it's hard to say exactly what you want out of our intelligence apparatus...