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...Crimson wrote: "The 1948 edition of the varsity football team [is] the most interesting to watch in at least a decade. It is a new philosophy, based on the basic premise that an electrifying offense is the best defense...
...Crimson wrote: "The 1948 edition of the varsity football team [is] the most interesting to watch in at least a decade. It is a new philosophy, based on the basic premise that an electrifying offense is the best defense...
Next March, moreover, Basic Books will bring out The Venona Secrets by Herbert Romerstein, former minority chief investigator of the House Internal Security Committee (which used to be HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee), and the late Eric Breindel. The book will make sensational charges, among them Romerstein's claim that the radical journalist I.F. Stone was a paid Soviet agent...
...contributions or cut off their constituents' trade. And once in office, every President since Richard Nixon has come round to the same realization. If not engagement, what? Cold war? Hot war? Those are hardly practical choices. And so for 20 years, there has been little daylight visible between the basic ways that Republicans and Democrats have approached the rising power of the world's most populous country, pursuing the effort to foster political reform and global stability by encouraging China's economic development...
...City's Metropolitan Museum of Art) is oratorical, Wagnerian; he is a flat-out mythomane, dedicated to the Sublime, the Enormous and the Ultra-German; a marvelous artist at his best and at his worst a Black Forest ham. Polke is thinner, weirder and more elusive. His work--whose basic nature developed during the period covered by this show, from 1963 to 1974--is a hard-to-read image haze formed by the overlay of Pop art on Germany's postwar consumer society and its emblems, refracted through a needling, ironic and sweetly anarchic temperament...