Word: critics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Revolution, the only radical art of the 20th century that meshed with radical politics. Tallin's unbuilt tower, the monument to the Third International, was greeted as transcending more bourgeois spectacles like the Eiffel Tower. It was the incarnation of struggle: "For the first time," a critic exclaimed, "iron rebels and wants to acquire its own artistic form!" El Lissitzky's marvelous series of Proun paintings, with their intersecting planes and crystalline forms, were like Utopian landscapes, referring to Russia's industrial future and dismissing its agricultural present...
...strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," he would adjust to the harsh new realities of life in the city by emphasizing management reform and by taking a tough line on fighting crime-including advocating capital punishment. He also became incumbent Mayor Abe Beame's sternest critic...
Perhaps Shahak's unruly teddy-bear appearance belies his public identity as a "dangerous" critic of the Israeli status quo; perhaps his thick accent and inattention to English syntax when speaking camouflages the eloquence of his pleas for human rights. Although he might appear less at home in a law court or a police detention center than in the chemistry lab (where the Israeli government, no doubt, fervently wishes he would remain), Israel Shahak's championing of human rights gives him the composure of someone who is doing what he believes in--and he directs advice to listeners from that...
...history: Racine's Phaedra, Mary Stuart and Cleopatra, and Alexander, "double-marching to gain the limits of the globe." Classmates at his prep school, St. Marks, called him Cal, after the despotic Roman emperor Caligula, because he was so imperious. The name stuck all his life. But a critic who described him as "an Old Testament prophet in ungodly times" was perhaps closer to the truth...
...sharpest critic is Wisconsin Democrat Henry S. Reuss, the scholarly chairman of the House Banking Committee. In a letter hand-carried by an aide to Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns two weeks ago, Reuss charges that the board "has lost control of the money supply." Reuss perceives at least two dangers to the economy: 1) "a real threat of nourishing inflation in 1978," 2) a deeper stock market slump, because investors may sell shares out of fear that the board will have to slam on the brakes suddenly...