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Long ago, Jesuit father and finger-wagging mother understood truths that return to us now with what Emerson called "an alienated majesty." The cultural Big Bang of the '60s destroyed the authority of common sense. The homeliest folklore comes back now as a ghost of lost knowledge or else shows up in the polyesters of what liberals dismiss as the "religious right...
...darts into the dress stores where she acquired the right coloration. It pauses for the dinner parties at which her cooking graduated from veal wrapped around Jones sausages to beef Wellington. Inevitably, it lands her in a shrink's office, where she tried to come to terms with the ghost of a "perfect" father who died when...
What mainly preserved her work was homosexual taste: in various ways it influenced Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns (who would take over the device of monogram letters around the frame of her portrait of Marcel Duchamp) and a host of others. The ghost of Florine also hovers, one feels, behind the marvelous illustrations of Edward Gorey...
DIED. GEORGE ROMNEY, 88, three-term G.O.P. Governor of Michigan; in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Romney's 1968 presidential bid gave up the ghost before the first primary, haunted by his assertion that his earlier support of the Vietnam War was due to "brainwashing" by the U.S. military...
...linking action to music; he wrote the books for such Stephen Sondheim musicals as Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George). At the moment, New York theater isn't long on chills, but Twelve Dreams offers some of the genuine, subtle edginess of a Henry James ghost story...