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...panoramic description of his neighbors and surroundings is overdone. He seems obsessed with the village's landscape, describing the land and people the way English romantics have done for centuries. He is once again writing what he is "supposed" to write instead of giving us some penetrating new insight...
...peasant dominated many canvassesof the period; as Lecturer in History andLiterature Cathy Frierson has pointed out, it wasthe objective of many realist painters to"penetrate and master the peasant soul." IvanKramskoi's portrait, "Mina Moiseev" is the firstwork to confront visitors to the exhibit, and itgives clear insight into the Itinerant painter'sdetermination to study the psychological behaviorof the peasant. Using a restricted palette,Kramskoi does not idealize his subject, and therealism captures a sense of the wisdom, kindnessand ruggedness in the subject...
Although an Italian, Toscanini was portrayed as embodying the panoply of virtues that Tocqueville, a century before, had labeled as particularly "American": pragmatism, efficiency, and belief in democracy. In addition, Horowitz writes--and this is a fascinating insight--Toscanini seemed to fulfil America's dream of denying the significance of the past, which seemed to dictate that American art would continue to lag behind Europe...
...counterintelligence experts have an uneasy suspicion that the Kremlin may have come up with devices that they are not yet aware of. Executives in private companies that produce snooping equipment for the U.S. Government are under strict orders to keep their mouths shut, but they do provide some insight into the weird world of electronic espionage and its impressive technology...
Already reaccustomed to the American practice of predicting presidential politics far in advance, Pippert is sure to spend the rest of the term fine-tuning his U.S. political insight with the help of the six other IOP fellows. And, all the free lunches aren't that bad either...