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SENATORS EXPLAIN their opposition to the House's support for education in one of two ways. A few echo Education Secretary William J. Bennett's attractive but thin arguments about using scarce education dollars to help primary and secondary schools rather than richer colleges and universities. Others simply talk about the pressing need to reduce the budget...
Unfortunately, American views of British art tend to echo the Chinese court scribe who is said to have remarked, in a letter to George III, that his Emperor was not unmindful of the "remoteness of your tiny barbarian island, cut off as it is from the world by so many wastes of sea." Modern British art, that is to say, tended toward the provincial, the marginal, the literary and the cute; it cultivated nuance and eccentricity at the expense of broader and grander pictorial concerns; it was anecdotal and too much tied to a fascination with human society -- little-island...
...mill is a semicovert part of the information media, says Kapferer, who holds an American Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University and teaches at France's School for Advanced Commercial Studies. He believes rumors reveal the desires, fears and obsessions of a society. "They are," he says, "an echo of ourselves...
...this couple, each dawn is a reawakening to humiliation, each day a struggle to believe they can make an art as universal as Kafka's. They speak of their homeland with attempted distaste: "In Eastern Europe, nobody has a sincere smile except drunks and informers." They echo Poland's subjugation: they yearn to be Russian refugees, who they believe are more in fashion, and wish they had Russian goods to sell. But in the most poignant scene they feel compelled to telephone someone, anyone, back home, just to ask how things are. After realizing that everyone they can think...
...feel antipatico. My face, when I see myself in a mirror, I don't like it. It's all wrong." Modesty is never absent ("I always repeat myself -- each composer has a musical calligraphy"), but self-defense comes in handy too, as with suggestions that parts of The Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they are deaf people who don't understand!" But no excuses...