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...supreme American novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, and Nathanael West, 37, died within a day of each other in December 1940. Just a few hours after Edith Piaf died on October 11, 1963, her friend Jean Cocteau passed away as well; some said that France's supreme aesthete did it as the grandest possible gesture of solidarity...
...Milos Forman's film (which he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carriere, the great French screenwriter, perhaps most famous for his collaborations with Luis Bunuel) Goya's escapist politics is another sign of his modernism. The great artists of the 20th Century sympathized with "progressive" causes, but rarely played a heroic role in them. But the entire film is less an exercise in historicism (though the portrait of the painter is accurate enough, as is the depiction of historical events, the story is pure fiction) than it is an elaborate analogy with our own times. This is quite understandable - Forman...
...Jean Bethke Elshtain, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, shares Land's conviction that the Bible doesn't mandate Sanctuary participation. She writes that the prooftexts refer to a situation where "there is a terrified, perhaps bleeding, usually hungry person at one's door and one takes him or her in. It has nothing to do with countries or nation states, and once one starts to move to big collectivities it gets much trickier...
...potential for trouble goes both ways. Indeed, the scale of U.S.-China trade dependence is worrying even some stalwart free traders. "In the globalized world of today, there is no risk if America, Europe and Japan stop producing T shirts or television sets," says Jean-Pierre Lehmann, professor of international political economy at IMD, the international business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. "My concern is that the U.S. in particular is far too overdependent on China, not just for goods but also for finance. So there is nothing wrong with the U.S. sourcing its consumables outside...
...Scots dubbed him the Wee Ice Man for his small stature and unflappable play. Tom Watson remained calm in 1975 despite failing to make a par on the 16th hole in all four rounds. And the defining image of the Open in 1999 will always be Jean Van De Velde ankle-deep in the water guarding the 18th green, squandering a three-shot lead on the final day by failing to play the hole conservatively. "I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge," he later explained. "Maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman...