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...your headline, "A Matter of Breadth versus Depth", and to do so in general terms. Where historians are concerned, breadth and depth are not antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view of history is, I submit, well worth espousing; and is not an ignoble aspiration for a History Department. Angeliki Laiou Chairman...
...Industrial Revolution, Lewis argued, the English should be peculiarly fitted to make art of it: "They are the inventors of this bareness and hardness, and should be the great enemies of Romance." The pleated, diagonally stressed, armored precision of Lewis' paintings, as grand in their own way as Fernand Leger's, testifies to this -- in A Battery Shelled, 1919, even the smoke is metal. "I look upon Nature, while I live in a steel city," exclaimed David Bomberg in 1914, and the terse machine-like signs he found for briskly moving figures in The Mud Bath, his early masterpiece...
Klein came to photography by way of painting, having studied briefly with Fernand Leger. Once he turned to the camera, the former sociology major from New York's City College showed a deep instinct for the urban demotic, with its links to the police blotter, the tabloid and the B movie. With money earned by doing Vogue fashion spreads in France, he made a picture-taking trip to New York in 1954, equipped with both the expatriate's eye for its psychic stresses and the native's complicity in them. Without resorting to the bizarre, he got the profoundly unsettled...
...builders into their most severe slump since the Great Depression. The battle for business has severely corroded cargo-hauling rates and the values of ships. It costs only about $7 today to move a ton of grain from New Orleans to Amsterdam, in contrast to $17 in 1981. Says Fernand Suykens, director general of the port of Antwerp: "World shipping is very sick, and nobody knows when it's going to get any better...
...could start a movement to force all banks and S and Ls in the U.S. to buy federal insurance. Says one congressional staffer: "Given the weakened condition of the thrift industry, another crisis is likely to happen unless there are changes made in the current system." Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, has asked federal regulators to advise him on whether they believe private insurance is adequate...