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...different versions of how horrendous an event this was," he says. "I didn't want to hear any more pain, to have more emotions thrown at me. The pastor felt that he needed to talk about whether people are being too patriotic and too gung-ho. That's fine. But that was not what I went there...
...former ambassador and sometime spy who tipped off Roosevelt to the V-3, was one of F.D.R.'s occasionally wild-haired espionage operatives. In Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (Random House; 564 pages; $35), Joseph E. Persico explores--with judicious historical zest and a fine eye for detail--the hallucinatory world of snooping, concealments, betrayals and confidence games played for world-history stakes...
This is a particularly critical time for what are known as the fine arts, which lately had become more famous for being the coarse arts--using sensation to attract controversy and attention. Now contemporary art's taste for shock value looks puerile, and its major topic of discussion--itself--seems hideously irrelevant...
...luminous black-and-white images are both crisply detailed and ambiguous, allowing Wagner to call attention to the leitmotifs of form that recur throughout nature: "The sharks' teeth are like pearls," says Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. "The scallions look like some intricate body part...
...more stable with U.S. economic interests firmly entrenched. After all, our oil money, economic and military assistance help hold up the non-democratic but occasionally reasonable governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, regimes which might otherwise fall to the fervent undercurrents of fundamentalism prevalent in those countries. What a fine mess we?...