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...trap; leftists coming of age in this era should only be looking for something better.in so doing we would he wise so discount Sontag's motion that communism is a monolith, pretty much the same wherever it rears its unchained head. As she herself eloquently proves, North Vietnamese communism circa 1968 is not the same as North Vietnamese communism criea 1980; certainly out of hand condemnations of the Sandinistas --increasingly a Leninist party, and hence a part of Sontag's menance--can be debated in ways that out of hand condemnations of Jaruzelski's Poland or Hoxha's Albania...
...instance, the white room containing the paintings of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-80). Convinced that her fate was to be the bride of Christ and to bear witness to Scripture, she covered hundreds of panels with hortatory texts and vibrant images of heaven and hell; in New Jerusalem, circa 1965-75, the choiring angels burst into white bloom like magnolias around a many-chambered house...
...refinement is not the whole story. His best paintings (like all serious art) are triumphs of sublimation, but they leave no doubt of the strength of feeling he had to control. From the very first, when he was trying-in studies like Composition with Figures and Banners, circa 1934-38-to find painted form for the violently energetic, twisting, flamelike movement of large masses, Pollock was obsessed by energy. His great theme, one might say, was the dissolution of matter into energy under extreme stress. He did not approach this by some corny process of finding painted "equivalents" for Einstein...
Annotated Alice, explains Carroll's rhymes and references and brightens the strange engravings of Henry Holiday. The choice of Holiday, Gardner says, was a classic Carrollian irony. In his day (circa 1870) the illustrator was renowned as a designer of stained-glass windows, among them a Crucifixion and Ascension that still stand at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan...
...line in that processional,/ Step into that small confessional,/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." There was a time (circa 1955) when The Vatican Rag caused frissons and merriment all around the campus- circuit. Songwriter Tom Lehrer was a Harvard math professor who could do numbers on anything from sex to the Bomb. But satire is a parasitical art, no stronger than its host. Folk singers, the. military, Freud and faith, all have been familiar targets for over a generation. Today Tomfoolery, a chrestomathy of 28 Lehrer hits...