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Then, around 1922, he made a complete volte-face. He was only 34 then, and the desire to be an old master seized him; the modernist experiment was too uncertain, and history, he thought, would condemn it. "I have seen," he wrote to André Breton in 1922, "yes, I have finally seen, that terrible things are happening today in painting." Amid hoots of derision from his former surrealist admirers, he marched firmly to the rear guard and took up an irritably defensive stance, maintaining it for the next half-century...
...Student Assembly last night voted by a wide margin to condemn the Harvard Corporation for allowing the Kennedy School to name a library after Charles W. Engelhard and called upon the Corporation to take whatever steps necessary to change the library's name...
...strongly condemn the Corporation for its insensitivity in according recognition and legitimacy to a supporter and personal benficiary of the South Africa system of apartheid," the resolution states...
...through The Threepenny, Opera refusing to be judged. Women, of course, fall all over him, and he's married two (at least). Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, the "king of the beggars," a less familiar character, acts as Brecht's mouthpiece to deliver the show's straight-forward message: don't condemn how others earn their next meal until you're faced with missing one yourself. Working, begging, taking bribes, stealing--they blur together in Brecht's world. "What's robbing a bank compared to founding a bank," asks Macheath; "What's killing a man compared to employing...
...three institutions are sacred in America, they are motherhood, baseball and Social Security. Any critic of the geometric rise of Social Security payouts is looked upon as a reactionary who would condemn the aged and disabled, the widows and orphans to a life of impecunity on a diet of Alpo. Yet the most articulate critic of this increasingly straitened pension system hardly looks or sounds like a modern Marie Antoinette...