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First the authorities described it as "moral pollution." Then it was "spiritual pollution." Finally, "cultural contamination." From the moment Communist Party officials began a program last October opposing alleged "bourgeois" influences, they had trouble defining the threat. Worse, the program met with hostility from much of the Chinese public.
Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level...
THE BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE: VICTORIA TO FREUD: VOLUME I: EDUCATION OF THE SENSES by Peter Gay: Oxford 534 pages; $25
Sexual practices probably change far less over the years than do people's ways of talking about them-or not talking. Gay does, however, examine such oddities as Edith Wharton's asking her mother about her wedding night, "What will happen to me?" and Mama answering only that...
At the base of the narrator's insanity liex her relationship with her mother. As a young girl the narrator discovered that she was an unwanted child and that her mother had tried to prevent her birth by inducing an abortion. The laws of accepted behavior repressed the guilt and...