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...parochial artist as the sixtytwo photographs on display in M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery brilliantly prove. Brassai's works confront us as documents and as works of art. They present the appearance of a specific moment in history yet manage to escape a pernicious topicality. Brassai takes pictures that beckon us to return again and again, like his portrait of a peasant sleeping on a train, oblivious to the landscape whizzing by outside his window, his worn and grizzled head thrown back against the seat, his mouth a gaping black hole. Or his photograph of Kiki, a plump and painted chanteuse...
...crises that threatened the very survival of the society. But the phenomenon is wholly unpredictable; there have been numerous upheavals in human history?the medieval plagues in Europe, for example?in which the event did not summon a savior. Ireland's eternal troubles illustrate history's frequent refusal to beckon a great leader with...
Within 20 minutes the road suddenly veers to the left, and the earth seems to fall away abruptly into a bottomless chasm. Black craggy walls slope sharply down into the bowels of this deep crater, where shiny steel skyscrapers beckon mystically in the clear sunny air. Spread out below and beyond, extending almost to the snow-capped Andean peaks in the distance, sparkles La Paz, a booming city seemingly dropped from space into a lunar landscape...
...shelves are strange labels: Granola, mung beans, Tiger's Milk, lecithin, all at nonsensical prices. Vitamin E, he learns, is expected to cure everything but the common cold; Vitamin C takes care of that. Adelle Davis has become the Brillat-Savarin of the counterculture. Her self-help books beckon from the paperback rack: Let's Get Well, Let's Have Healthy Children, Let's Eat Right To Keep...
...after the Waltham returns were posted, McGovern launched into his concession speech and everyone turned toward the television sets. The crowd remained quiet until McGovern said. "We do not rally to the support of policies that we deplore, but we do love this country and we will continue to beckon it to a higher standard." Everyone cheered. As soon as McGovern finished speaking, Drinan emerged from seclusion, strode to the front of the Tiara Room in his clerical garb, and gave a short, emotional speech...