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...legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." That is more than the bottom line of a 1936 article; it is the epitaph of the British imperial style...
Rockefeller and the order of things have buried 39 people and two issues--prison reform and basic human decency--in the cemetery reserved for all the dirty little stories of American history, most of which share the same themes: racism and violence. New York Congressman Herman Badillo provided the epitaph for Attica's tombstone: "There's always a time to die. I don't know what the rush...
...wanted to do, every day for 85 years, and how many of us can claim that much?" In its way, that young Manhattan artist's comment on Thomas Hart Benton, who died of heart disease in his studio in Kansas City, Mo., last week, was not a bad epitaph. In the course of a career that spanned seven decades (from his first job as cartoonist for a local paper in Joplin), Benton became the most popular 20th century American artist. His belligerently folksy murals, full of the pleasures of the hoedown and the Fourth of July picnic, the innocence...
...SOLDIERS by Robert Stone. An epitaph for the late 1960s etched in acid, this brilliantly bleak novel traces three muddled Americans and a stash of Vietnamese heroin through the counterculture rubble of California...
Throughout the '20s, Lippmann denounced in measured terms the main thrusts of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He opposed the isolationism that kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations and the World Court. He consistently skewered the passive presidencies of Harding and Coolidge (his epitaph on the latter's Administration: "Nothing ventured, nothing lost"). Neither Lippmann nor the World foresaw the Great Depression, but his verdicts on the '20s -reached in the heat of daily events-have held up remarkably well...