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Kovler, 29, a distillery heir who sports a bushy mustache and bushy optimism, was born seven years after Roosevelt's death. When a friend, who happened to have been born on Roosevelt's birthday, told him last summer that it would soon be the F.D.R. centennial, Kovler began asking what celebrations were being planned. To his amazement he learned that virtually nothing was being done. The U.S. seemed to be suffering what Kovler calls a "collective amnesia." Says he: "It has been...
These were woven around a sense of his own modernity as an American living in the mid-20th century, the heir but not the colonized admirer of Picasso and Miró. It seems now that Pollock was eager to wind so many elements together in his work, not out of some empty eclecticism (which is what our "expressionists" give us today) but in the belief that cultural synthesis might redeem us all. How can one follow this show, from its first choked and turbulent exercises, through the grapplings with chosen masters (Picasso, Masson, Miró, Orozco) in the "totemic...
That, at least, is the hope and a major part of her appeal. In the course of eleven months she changed from single girl to engaged woman to bride and Princess to wife and mother-to-be of an heir to the throne: a fresh, enchanting face pledged to the long future of happily ever after. She brought youth and beauty and class to a year that needed them all. Most important, she came to stay...
...difficult for Westerners to grasp the extent to which Gaddafi is the sole spirit and voice of a revolution that in twelve years has transformed this North African desert wasteland. In 1969, armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabic nationalism, Gaddafi and eleven other young officers deposed the conservative King Idris in a bloodless coup. Gaddafi has since established iron political control of his countrymen, largely by spreading Libya's abundant oil wealth among them. Says Fouad Zlitni, a true believer...
Still, Gaddafi has failed to realize his real ambitions. He believes that he is Nasser's true heir in the Middle East and nurtures a dream of establishing an Islamic sub-Saharan republic stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. "My problem is I have no country to lead, though I am a great leader," he has complained. "He has a very clear idea of what he wants," says a U S Government official. "But as leader of only 3 million people, he has very unrealistic hopes of putting together a pan-Arab vision based on Nasser's dreams...