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...combination of lofty public appearances and quietly effective political operations helps explain why a President who polled historic levels of unpopularity a year ago now enjoys a 10-to-15-point lead over his Republican opponent and his highest favorable ratings in two years. Just last summer Sosnik was touring the country trying to persuade Democrats that the race wasn't hopeless. Now he has to remind them that...
...beautiful day for baseball, so the fact that Harvard lost didn't really matter. Let me explain...
That may help explain why so many of his early prints are not much larger than a playing card. At that palm-size scale the solid world starts to dematerialize. Trees in the mist become twigs. Grasses reflected in water, as in his early picture Detroit, look like not fully legible scribbles of some force behind creation. Callahan shared with the Abstract Expressionist painters a penchant for the sublime, but he worked toward it from a different direction. They preferred wall-size canvases, a match for the presumed immensities of the spiritual realm; he made pictures the size...
SEEMINGLY PERPLEXED BY THE LACK OF A "monstrous cause" for such a "monstrous effect" as the slaughter of innocents in Dunblane, Lance Morrow [ESSAY, March 25] noted that "only the vocabulary of evil" could explain what happened there. But as long as social commentators feel they can justifiably use the term nonentity to refer to any human being, society will continue to be plagued by eruptions of violence like the one at Dunblane. BRUCE A. FRENCH Guilford, Connecticut Via E-mail...
WHILE MORROW AND OTHERS ENGAGE IN analysis and sophistry trying to explain what happened at Dunblane, the most fundamental reason is clear: the monster Hamilton had four loaded handguns. Would the gun worshippers have us believe that this maniac could have achieved such a level of carnage with a sword or a bow and arrow? CHARLES ESTES Fullerton, California...