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...Desert Fox" may not have been so foxy after all. According to an impressive roster of military experts appearing on West German TV, World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was far from the brave and brilliant commander Hitler had cracked him up to be. Rommel's understanding of strategy was "slight," said General Ulrich de Maiziere, the Bundeswehr's chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf...
...Stewart's concern with the lost past turns, in Picker, into a vague, if not reactionary, romanticization of "kids everywhere, gettin' on in the back seat of the car." He sums up his disaffection with American life with the parable "Shoot all the brave horses and how will we ride," which is repeated for a tiring three minutes at the end of the album...
...portrayed them as misguided but romantic outlaws fighting the system which had caused the Depression. Hoover must have felt that an entire generation of American children was threatened by the growth of this myth, and he determined to offer an alternative model: the FBI director and his corps of brave Special Agents...
...Radcliffe team will play Pine Manor Jr. College this Tuesday and extends an invitation to all brave Harvard men to a game on the Radcliffe quad this Thursday...
Newman's canvases, with their engulfing fields of color traversed by vertical "zips," had become intrinsic to the look of American painting. Artists as diverse as Dan Flavin, Kenneth Noland, Clement Meadmore and Alexander Liberman had been deeply affected by the radical openness of his art and his brave, grumpy polemics. Granted obvious differences of context and emphasis, Newman's work had acquired much the same ethical role as Poussin's did for young painters in the 17th century, or Ingres' in the early 19th. This month, Newman is saluted by a full-scale retrospective...