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...lacks the emotion of ingenuity and surprise. So what if we can work hard, get secure jobs, set up trust funds for our children's education and save enough money to retire while we can still remember what we want to enjoy. Is this the American Dream circa 1990? Safe sex, safe drinking, safe bank accounts? We're getting so boring...
...October 1, Adam K. Goodheart wrote an Opinion piece ("PC Past and Present") in which he compared "the chic anti-PC brigade, circa 1991" to a white supremacist writer of the 1960s. He even called the writer, Carleton Putnam, "the Dinesh D'Souza of Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1961," in a reference to the opponent of political correctness and author of Illiberal Education...
Many of Adams's photographs are similarly evenhanded--his is a perspective where the camera more often records than interacts with the world. But, other works in this show, like "Long Beach Cemetery" (circa 1940), engages the viewer with its ironic subject matter. The scene contrasts a classicalstyle sculpture from a cemetery in the foreground with various industrial eyesores in a background of grass and trees. It is a very strange and compelling image...
...clear, thinking was big, and budgets were gigantic. But then Meier, 57, is rather gloriously anachronistic -- and high-minded and portentous -- himself. While most of his peers have spent the past two decades feverishly inventing (or capitulating to) a sometimes gimcrack neo-neoclassicism, Meier has remained an unrepentant circa-1927 Corbusian -- modernism's last best heir. "I don't think you change your values every day or every time you do a new building," he says. "If you are worried about style or what is the trend of the moment, you are in trouble...
Only these particular words weren't written or spoken by any of the people you might suspect. They were spoken 30 years ago, by a white-supremacist in Mississippi. Meet the anti-PC brigade, circa...