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...Courbet considered himself the Michelangelo of socialism. In the 1848 revolution, he bragged, "there were only two men ready-me and Proudhon." The 1871 revolution found him on the side of the Paris Commune, which called for the demolition of that symbol of "false glory," the Vendome Column. Later, the Commune crushed, a vengeful state passed a law to make Courbet bear the cost of restoring the column. Bankrupt, he fled to Switzerland and died in exile in 1877. There is always room for argument over the extent of Courbet's realism. The man who insisted on setting down...
...Seidman's column on Wilfred Burchett in this week's Crimson should not pass without notice. Here is a friendly protrait of a man until recently barred from the United States, now once again in circulation to sell his new book. Seidman describes Burchett as a war correspondent better able to understand the Vietnam War than American reporters because of his intimacy with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong, and as a life-long supporter of popular revolutions around the world...
...account of such indecency might spoil her agreeable picture of Burchett, and this pleasant "peripatetic fellow" might have seemed better worth contempt than an encouraging column. But it is time that American supporters of Ho Chi Minh and his successors gave up the delusion that the barbaric tyranny under which all Vietnam now groans, and which the ill-managed American effort bravely tried to spare the south, is tempered by any particular humanity. James W. Muller...
...This column received its first letter this week from a Harvard student. For her creative writing class this student decided to write a first-person piece pretending to be me at a Harvard hockey games. The result is very interesting...
Thank you very much Susie foring with us that superb prose. If any one else wants to write letters to this column, please do so. The last piece of mail I got informed me that there was a sale on baby clothes at a local store...