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Liberal Intervention. Speculating on what Keynes would have prescribed for the 1960s, Lekachman does not echo the fierce individualist from Cambridge, England, but the contemporary critic from Cambridge, Mass.-John Kenneth Galbraith. Faulting everything from "the looming menace of automation" to "the dubious or negative social value of advertising," Lekachman is angry with America's "frequently crude and crass material culture" and somehow concludes that the Great Society programs have "powerful tendencies to favor the prosperous...
Sometimes the Updike stories echo not only themselves but other voices by other specialists. The Family Meadow, for example, could be an unconscious transcription of John Cheever's The Day the Pig Fell into the Well; it is a memorable elegy to a family at its high point of felicity, caught at the moment before its dissolution. Yet the story is Updike's own; it is clearly his identifiably New Jersey-Pennsylvania family he is writing about, and the note he sounds is ironic; so far, he has left others to blow the tragic basses...
...Aerodrome suggests that Warner is a writer of extraordinary, controlled power who levies on his work the totalitarian discipline that it requires and deserves. Anyone rereading The Aerodrome will be struck by how firmly Warner's tolling cadences have lodged in the echo chamber of the mind, and how rewarding it is to hear them again...
...year. Of only 29 undisputedly authentic Vermeer paintings, Mauritshuis Director A. B. de Vries has managed to bring together eleven of the greatest, the largest such gathering since a 1696 Amsterdam auction. Setting them off is a complementary exhibition of masterpieces, ranging from Caravaggio to Cézanne, which echo Vermeer's serenity of spirit and magical treatment of light...
...sighting that was vouchsafed to Farmer Alexander Hamilton, of LeRoy, Kans., in April 1897. The hideous humanoids stole his heifer, hauled it aboard their "airship," and, "jabbering together," sailed away. "I don't want anything more to do with them," concluded Hamilton's affidavit. Most people would echo Hamilton's heartfelt prayer in the spirit of those who do not believe in ghosts and hope never...