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Besides, Gardner has a commitment to the ideal of the Great Society that antedates even Lyndon Johnson's. In 1961, three years before the President's now-famous speech at Ann Arbor, Mich., Gardner wrote in a provocative essay called Excellence that Americans "long, long ago were committed, as free men, to the arduous task of building a great society-not just a strong one, not just a rich one, but a great society...
...right to be let alone" took a vital new direction in the 1890 Harvard Law Review. In an article that was to become the most famous of all U.S. law-review articles, Boston Attorneys Samuel D. Warren and Louis...
...already using girls from a Bucharest bordello as mod els. This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
...forces of evil in the international economy have been trying to force Elsie's to lower the quality of its famous Roast Beef Special, which has sold for years at fifty cents...
...essay I find so exciting is Prof. C.L. Barber's "Perfection of the Work," an Erikson-style psycho-analysis of Shakespeare. Barber takes the Sonnets as his data, Lorenz as his theoretician, and Keats as his stimulus, rather echoing Keats's famous "Negative Capability" letter when he wonders "how it was possible for Shakespeare to endure his openness to life, his selfless sense of other identities." Barber is wildly speculative, but modestly, openly so, and produces some stimulating starting points for inquiries into the relationship of artist and society...