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Crotchety Realist Leigh blames modern art on the Algerian War (1830-47), when the French aristocrats began drinking absinthe, and the "lower classes," with their vulgar ideas, began to dominate the art world. Says he: "It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint...
In their sod huts a century from now, ancient Rumanian peasants will speak tragically of the things their fathers told them of the frightful year 1940. First there had been the war between the peoples of the West, each striving to pull Rumania into the struggle on its side. Then...
Wearing tin hats and carrying gas masks, interviewers for Dr. George Gallup's British Institute of Public Opinion lately went among the bomb-battered British people asking: "In view of the indiscriminate bombing of this country, would you approve or disapprove if the R. A. F. adopted a similar...
The book relates the disintegration of humanistic Christianity to the world's social woes. "When we consider the frightful panorama of the nations," sighs Maritain, "we feel . . . that spirit is humiliated today in an extraordinarily profound manner." Medieval philosophy sought to alleviate inhumanity and injustice by establishing a basic...
There have been disasters in history -- the sacking of Rome, the Black Plague, the Hundred Years War. But in its small and subtle way, "Argentine Nights" tops them all. That movie is so frightful that it has a sort of sinister grandeur.