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...titled "The End of History?," will soon appear in Japanese, Italian and Dutch journals. The French quarterly Commentaire will also publish a translation, along with critiques by leading intellectuals such as Jean-Francois Revel. The National Interest, which accompanied Fukuyama's article with responses by such pundits as Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) and New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, will print two more lengthy reactions in its autumn issue...
...evidence of this impending rebirth of vigor and social activism, the authors point to a motley hodge-podge of completely unrelated events. They cite the politicization of comic strips like "Bloom County" and "Cathy." They herald the social conscience of Rain Man and the The Good Mother...
...Perhaps the most haunting of all the stops is Monet's retreat at Giverny, where the painter lived for 43 years until his death in 1926. In his calendar, June belongs to the rhododendrons and wisteria, but come summer each color will have its season, as the rambling roses bloom in August and dahlias erupt in the fall...
...Clement Greenberg sent Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland round to see Mountains and Sea in Frankenthaler's studio, they were astonished. "It was as if Morris had been waiting all his life for this information," Noland would say later. What they saw was a way to convey the weightless bloom of color without any apparent thickness of paint: light without texture. (Maybe they could have seen it earlier by looking at Turner's watercolors, but never mind: American taste ran to watercolors the size of Guernica.) Though practically no one now buys the '60s' doctrinaire readings of color-field painting...
Pluralism and its consequences swept through the College in 1988-'89 like no other year. Even as humanities scholars embraced the legitimacy of "different voices" from the Western traditions advocated by men like former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett and University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom, the realities of living with diversity caught up with students in the Yard and the houses and with University officials...