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...door. But the talk, for the most part, isn't about Hamptons and debentures. A petite blond writer in an electric red dress speculates for a guest about what might happen at National Review now that Bill Buckley has retired. A tweedy editor of the critical monthly New Criterion has some delicious gossip about faculty problems at Duke. A lanky novelist asks if anyone else plans to catch the lecture on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain at the Opus Dei center next door...
...journalists, they tend to preach to true believers: their names can be found on the mastheads and in the bylines of such periodicals as Commentary, National Review, the American Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion and NY: The City Journal, a new quarterly of urban affairs. "We're not a unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism...
Mention feminism and art in the same breath, and some art critics begin to fume. "The feminist movement has not come up with a single talent heretofore unknown to us," insists Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of the New Criterion, a monthly arts review. "It tells us nothing about the qualities one should be studying in a work of art." But those are fighting words to the legions of artists, critics and scholars who have devoted the past 20 years to developing a feminist critique of art history. Their efforts have virtually set the agenda for academic discussion and have...
...late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said he found it impossible to describe obscenity, but added, "I know it when I see it." Going by that paradoxically common-sensical criterion, it's easy to see that no one can tell if something will be obscene before it is created, so it's silly to say, "Okay, Senator, you win. I won't be obscene...
...That kind of restriction does not assure that we will get the best possible leadership," said Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55. "And that should be the single criterion...