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The sound was like a tide pushing everything before it, remembers Richard Helms. He had never heard anything like it before, nor has he in the 53 years since Sept. 13, l936.
By some strange fate Helms rode in the car just behind Adolf Hitler's that day in Nuremberg. Helms would later become director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but then he was a 23-year-old United Press reporter lucky enough to get a glimpse of history being forged. For...
In short, what the amendment proposes is a loony parody of cultural democracy in which everyone becomes his or her own Cato the Censor. Clearly, Jesse Helms has no doubt that the NEA must be punished if it strays from what he fancies to be the center line of American...
Conversely, why bother to support what market Darwinism seems to condemn to obscurity? "I have fundamental questions," Helms grated, "about why the Federal Government is supporting artists the taxpayers have refused to support in the marketplace." But this was exactly what the NEA was created, in 1965, to do -- and...
ESSAY: Why Helms is wrong about aid for the arts