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Sir: It makes one shudder to think how many other top-secret documents are in the hands of dedicated public servants gifted with prophetic hindsight such as Daniel Ellsberg.
Boudin introduced him to the idea of painting direct from the motif, en plein air. Painters like Constable and Turner had done this before but in watercolor; Courbet had done parts of his canvases on the scene and finished them in the studio. But the invention of ready-mixed oil...
THE CONFESSIONAL SUFFERERS have their enshrined god in Lowell. "Eliot talked about a world breaking apart at the seams from a stance reflecting personal control," explains Harvard professor Roger Rosenblatt. "What people today like most about Lowell is that he seems to be coming apart at the seams himself." But...
As the affair of the Pentagon papers went into its second incredible week, antiwar partisans seemed to be manipulating basic U.S. institutions?the press, Government, and even, in a sense, the courts?to stage-manage a dramatic presentation of their views far beyond the wildest dreams of the most zealous...
Even more intense is the students' disgust with the lycée emphasis on rigid classical learning. Although gifted survivors of the grind emerge with sharply honed minds, today's students are increasingly unable to see any connection between their mnemonic classes and the skills they will need...