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And, in a sense, this entire album represents what one can achieve through force of will. Husker Du's lyrics may be didactic, but they never become too preachy, too cliche, or too trite. And even though the band may present a harsh, discordant, and even at times bitter vision...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Force of Will | 2/10/1984 | See Source »

Yet Venice was generous to all its artists, and one of its gifts was light, that clear, mutable ambient light of the lagoon, a continuous tissue, indulgent to color and eager for sensuous reflection in paint. Light and color in the Venetian cinquecento are all of a piece; they rarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Legacy of La Serenissima | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manifest Destiny in Paint | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

No matter: new Irans will keep popping up (in our minds) regardless. The empirical world can do little to dampen the appeal of metaphor, since it deals in what Historian Michael Oakeshott calls "practical" or "didactic history," a species of pseudo history in which what passes for analysis is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Ghosts (Or: Does History Repeat?) | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

An approach that concentrated on teaching and learning was the main contribution of my book The Paideia Proposal. The favorable response that the program elicited focused on its recommendation of three distinct types of teaching and learning that must be operative throughout the twelve years of basic schooling. These methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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