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The tight-lipped code of honor was another manifestation of the literary silence, posing as bravery, that lasted until his death of lung cancer in 1961. The act convinced no one, least of all his biographer. Johnson regards her subject without illusion. She knows that inspiration can arrive and vanish...
Yet the exhibition presents a world born in illusion and doomed to confusion. Modern design began with the notion that artists and craftsmen, rather than technicians, should shape products made by machines, giving beautiful form to rational function, "liberating" the toiling masses from the "crime" of ornament and clutter. By...
Fearing such an impulse as "mere anarchy," W.B. Yeats foresaw a Second Coming not long before 1923, in which the world would be devoured by a "rough beast." Yet the impulse was not necessarily anarchic, although things could turn out that way. It was the dream of self-fulfillment. As...
In short, the movie is anything but slick in structure or glib in tone. But that is far from a defect. In fact, the best thing about it is the serious but never sobersided spirit in which it was made. In the first memo he wrote about the project, Writer...
It's true that the game plodded glacially to its conclusion after UMass seized control. Harvard provided the illusion of a comeback in the second half, out gaining the Minutemen, 190 total yards to 66. But the Crimson penetrated the UMass 30 just twice, wasting its other chances with two...