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...tenets changed little between 1964 and 1980. Yet while Barry Goldwater came across as a reactionary, Ronald Reagan established himself as spokesman for Everyman. Reagan altered some nuances, to be sure, but the major change in the interim was that many citizens had lost confidence in Washington as a fount of social progress...
Perhaps the most significant fount of dissent in Cuba is the generation gap. Half of Cuba's 10 million people were born after Castro seized power in 1959. "People who lived through the revolution had a sense of what they were fighting against," says a U.S. State Department official. "The kids who have grown up since don't. All they've been told is austerity, austerity, less and less freedom...
...idea, one supposes, behind this outrageous claim is that Harvard is a fount of diversity and that one's college experience will be broadened if one is exposed to people of different backgrounds. While this may be true, undergraduates should keep in mind that Exeter classmates and football buddies have feelings, too, and to suddenly spend less than 100 percent of one's free time with them is liable to cause misunderstandings and hurt feelings. And imagine how embarassed one would be to come shamefacedly back into the fold after having caught a lethal venereal disease from a "friendly" stranger...
...kind of meanings that abstraction could not convey, and these were picked up by a second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
...Poles, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa is far more than an object of Roman Catholic reverence. It is a source of historical continuity, a cause and remembrance of national liberation from foreign enemies, and a fount of miracles. The 4-ft. by 2½-ft. gilt-and-tempera dark-hued portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ child is laden with gems and silver. By legend, the painting is attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist, and was executed on a table top from the house of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Nazareth. It origins are unknown, but it may date...