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Pearl Harbor and the passage of the Lend-Lease Act turned Brewster into a dedicated internationalist. After graduating cum laude in 1941 (selected by his class as the member who "had done most for Yale"), he joined the State Department as an aide in Nelson
...astigmatism of adulation that most contemporary historians bring to bear on their subjects. George Washington's ivory false teeth; Gladstone's predilection for reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device too far. For eleven...
...does not enjoy the prospect. "I abhor giving speeches, I detest shaking hands, I detest in the most abominable manner signing autographs." And those babies, those terrible, drooling babies. But Vaughn wants to help, and he knows that his face and name may lend respectability to an anti-war movement which needs it. The effectiveness of the April 12 March in New York, in Vaughn's view, was riddled by tactical errors--a slate of controversial speakers, the wild forays of urban guerrillas and a contingent of exhibitionist hippies Being...
...original list of desired exhibits, the show represents "an ultimate test of the conviction that fine things will always go together." Collecting them became the responsibility of a 15-man international committee of museum officials from eleven countries, who somehow had to persuade governments, museum trustees and individuals to lend ancient, fragile, and often irreplaceable pieces...
...idea," explains Carter, "was to ask for the moon and hope for the best." Needless to say, the moon was not always delivered. The Louvre was not about to lend the Victory of Samothrace, but the Philadelphia Museum of Art came through with Rodin's 21-ton The Burghers of Calais. Italy was stingy with its Renaissance masters, saved its Donatello for its own pavilion...