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Mubarak's moves indicate he has taken a sensitive reading of the public mind. For all his popularity in the West, Sadat did not enjoy great love and esteem at home. Many Egyptians felt that his regime was not only repressive but insensitive to their needs. Sadat's...
What influenced such men was, above all, the vestiges and souvenirs of African art, sluiced back into France as mere curiosities by the currents of imperial trade at the turn of the century. To compare such objects with their European responses, at this late date, is to enter a strange...
Botany, Britain's public and private passion, is rooted in the late 18th century. In that formal, opulent era, imperial collectors sent a steady stream of exotic flora from the newly acquired lands of Africa and America, and the first plantings were made in what was to become the...
The Germans have a deep national habit of earnest exaggeration. The Japanese, of course, practice a style of negative exageration-self-abnegation so elaborate as to be a kind of overstatement. On Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito observed in the imperial announcement of Japan's surrender: "The war situation...
Garfield and his top-selling feline pals are but one example of the cat boom in the U.S., which now goes well beyond book and comic pages. There is, for example, Cats, an opulent, energetic rock musical adapted from T.S. Eliot's volume of poems Old Possum's...