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...believe that it is fairly well known that Nan Wood Graham was the woman who posed for American Gothic [May 10], but I have always been puzzled about why the identity of the man in this famous painting should be so shrouded in anonymity. He was Dr. B. H. McKeeby, and he was a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dentist. It is a local Cedar Rapids legend-this being a case where the legend may be the truth-that Grant Wood picked Dr. McKeeby as a model while McKeeby was filling Grant's tooth...
...over the "unbeatable" Brown, an appellation that could come as a big surprise to Brown. The expertly produced program catches Reagan in a wide assortment of moods. He grins, laughs and frowns as the occasion dictates-but he always looks good. Reagan headquarters would dearly love to show the famous hour-long Telestar debate with Robert Kennedy-in which Bobby showed up rather badly-but CBS, the producing network, has refused permission, claiming copyright privileges. In addition, 750,000 copies of an eight-page Reagan tabloid have been distributed with the state's Sunday newspapers. In all, about...
...Joseph Proudhon, became anarchism's most articulate spokesman. With the Revolution ringing in his ears, and using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon wrote in passionate paradoxes. Authority, he said, fosters not order but disorder; laws create injustice; government leads to slavery. To his most famous question, framed in a book called What Is Property?, Proudhon answered in a single word: "Theft." Thus defining man's social institutions in terms of their abuses, he found the new ideal: anarchy, or ungoverned natural order. It was well before Darwin and Freud had drastically changed the sentimental...
WOLFGANG Amadeus Mozart is history's most famous child prodigy. A virtuoso clavierist and a more than competent organist and violinist as well, he was equally boggling as performer, improviser, and composer. He fashioned his first minuets at the age of six, his first symphony approaching nine, his first oratorio at eleven, and his first opera at twelve...
...catch what happens to time in Desolation Row. He presents a rambling view of the half real, half surreal things famous characters from books and fairy tales are doing. The tremendous feel for the immediacy of what happens Dylan gives us in the chronological one-after-another present tense. But actually the whole story is a Dylan-modified version of a letter he read "yesterday." "All these people that you mention. Yes I know them they're quite lame. I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name." Dylan tells his correspondent that it's too difficult...