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...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...
...unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will be better, richer, freer than ever before. To the delight of many Soviet citizens -- and the dismay of others -- their country is in the midst of its most dramatic transformation since the days of Stalin...
...more forms of close international cooperation. And so we did, at least for a time. After World War II, the United States led the way in developing the United Nations, in supporting international organizations and agreements of many kinds, in upholding international law, proposing limits on atomic weapons, promoting freer trade and--not least--in giving generously to help poorer nations through the Marshall Plan. the Point Four program and other initiatives of a similar kind...
...local press carries little news of the Soviet Union's experimentation with freer markets and economic incentives. Members of Cuba's elite who are aware of the Soviet reforms nonetheless defend Castro's path. The farmers' markets, insists Enrique Capetillo Llana, an editor of the popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series...
Most of this experimental activity takes place in Europe; what Old World audiences find adventurous, American operagoers often consider brazen. Protective of the cultural talismans bequeathed by distant European forefathers, Americans tend to mistrust radical interpretations. Europeans, more at ease with their own heritage, feel freer to experiment with it. Those seeking a bold approach in the U.S. will rarely find it in the big houses. In New York City, the Metropolitan Opera favors conservative productions, sometimes elephantine ones like Franco Zeffirelli's La Boheme and Tosca, that reinforce the company's role as a musical museum. Occasionally, the rival...