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He was indeed the Moses of late 19th century art, the conflicted, inspired, sometimes enraged patriarch who led painting toward Modernism--a deceptive Canaan sometimes, not always flowing with milk and honey, but radically new territory all the same. The essential point, however, is that just as Moses died before...
As helmeted police officers, seemingly emulating their Chicago prototypes, beat screaming students with their billy clubs repeatedly just for the pleasure of it in the flat silver light of daybreak, an illusion was smashed. Harvard would no longer be an ivy-covered sanctuary in an America that was coming apart...
Among some children's advocates, enthusiasm has faded for homegrown, experimental approaches. In 1988 Lisbeth Schorr and her husband, National Public Radio's Daniel Schorr, wrote Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage, which enthusiastically described 24 new programs for children. Today half of them are gone, and Schorr...
Besides these concrete problems, there is also the Russians' loss of psychological security. "If you were viewing Russia from Mars," says Yuli Guzman, a former liberal member of Russia's State Duma, "you would have to say life has got better in the last five years. But if people are...
A few songs, like "Fairy Princess" and "Wishing The Day Away," explore Fitzpatrick's habit of using fantasies to escape the melancholic moments in life. While singing these tunes, the lights dim and Fitzpatrick appears to be transported to a magical place where life's obstacles are forgotten, and she...