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...feminine" late Zurbaran, with his fluid daylight effects and graceful, slightly stilted coloring, though less congenial to modern taste, was not by any means a painter to ignore. In any case, one now sees him whole for the first time, and the Met's show speaks with equal meaning to both experts and the general public. At a time when the rattle of turnstiles so often outvotes the voice of scholarship in American museums, such events unfortunately seem rarer than ever...
...chiseled prose to shift into the arabesque line that runs from Tocqueville to Murray Kempton. "I never passed through security for a flight to Miami," she writes early in her new book, "without experiencing a certain weightlessness, the heightened wariness of having left the developed world for a more fluid atmosphere, one in which the native distrust of extreme possibilities that tended to ground the temperate United States in an obeisance to democratic institutions seemed rooted, if at all, only shallowly...
...that Harvey admitted to police he killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others. Most were described as elderly and ailing. His methods, according to the report, ranged from cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or cleaning fluid to suffocation with a plastic bag or pillow. Police have refused to comment on the case, pending completion of the grand jury investigation...
Like any earthly matter, the Constitution has three forms: the solid text of the framers, the more fluid interpretation of the courts and a sort of glowing gas perceived by the public. That last Constitution, misquoted, rhapsodized over and construed to endorse the passions of the moment, is the subject of this imaginative book by a Pulitzer-prizewinning Cornell University historian, Michael Kammen. Kammen rummages through two centuries of sources, including news clippings, speeches, textbooks and public opinion polls, to gauge how Americans have regarded their own charter of government...
Unfortunately, though, two often fluid laws of American social relations are axiomatic at Harvard College. First, it is impossible to feel good about being Black all or most of the time. Second, it is impossible to avoid thinking about being Black for more than two days at a time except sometimes during Reading Period. (Occasionally I hear from a Black student the following: "I don't think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated...