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...World Foundation's Vernon Eagle has observed, mandate them as "agents for social change." Policies cannot become ruts; the habit of geese flocking, or doing what the other foundation does and supporting popular institutions and causes, must be sturdily resisted. "Foundations should stay out in the forefront of humanity," says Rockefeller President J. George Harrar. "Our major contribution is to make ourselves no longer necessary...
Almost since the days when Druidic warriors daubed themselves with woad, the notion has persisted that British painting is a barbarous and insular affair. By and large, the thesis is correct -but there is an important century of exception. Between 1760 and 1860, when Britain swept to the forefront among nations, its painters were as engaged and influential as its soldiers and diplomats were at Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna...
Mehta's qualities at this point are more than enough to put him in the forefront of today's young conductors, but he is not alone. "Look at our generation!" he says, affecting, as he often does, the royal first-person-plural pronoun. "We've got competition...
...forefront of the U.S. dramatic avant-garde is in Europe-a band of strolling anarchist players who are emigrants from off-Broadway. When a failure to pay back taxes shuttered the Living Theater in 1963, Co-Founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina took their troupe to Europe. They have been there ever since, touring 95 cities in four Volkswagen buses. In addition to nondelivery of scenery, the company has had to cope with censorship in Spain, riots in France, and fistfights in several Italian towns. This sort of mishap scarcely fazes an outfit that is run like a permissive kindergarten...
Many Republicans, including some of Romney's avowed supporters, now believe that the Michigander's campaign will turn into a holding operation, coalescing the party's moderates and keeping them in the forefront until another middle-of-the-road candidate with a realistic chance of gaining the nomination can step in. Cheering Romney last week on his announcement, Nelson Rockefeller observed: "A wise national Republican Party will choose a moderate, able, winning candidate in 1968." Despite all of Rocky's disclaimers, some Republicans thought that rather than prescribing for Romney, he was describing Nelson Rockefeller...