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...dead ends. "Most governments were seeking to reduce the public, and expand the market, sectors of their economies," writes Historian Paul Johnson in his chronicle, Modern Times. The retreat was foretold by a swing in intellectual fashion. It began with the 1970 publication of Jean-Francois Revel's Without Marx or Jesus, which praised U.S. society as open and pragmatic and rejected socialism as a dogma that had failed...
Harvard lecturer on History and Literature Paul A. Marx will take a figurative journey to New York and, according to the course catalogue, "examine the works of those artists and writers...who have used the city's physical and social environment as a major means of artistic expression...
Though not exactly Marx, Madonna has sparked a global revolution. From Moscow to Peking, the Material Girl has put a new spin on dialectical materialism. Nothing, however, can compare with her reception in Panama, where people have gone mad over La Donna. For almost two years, 23-year-old Wanna Be's have been curling their hair and donning lace. Both a soft-drink company and a chewing-gum firm have produced ads copying her from-bed-to- verse videos. "Even Michael Jackson did not produce such a frenzy," marvels Jim Truch Gomez, manager of the country...
...with his murals and left behind a huge output of easel paintings, drawings and prints. Few 20th century artists have been as popular in their own societies. None is more relevant to the debate over "indigenous," or "national," art language as against "international style." A Marxist who read little Marx, he found a deep well of pictorial eloquence in the traditions and miseries of the campesino. "For the first time in the history of art," Rivera claimed, "Mexican mural painting made the masses the hero of monumental...
...reporter for 20 years who can turn a 7-Eleven stickup into a compelling tale of Balzacian detail that illuminates the lives of robber and victim alike. The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader earned its first Pulitzer for a series that revealed payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players. Jeffrey Marx, who shared the award with Michael York, is only 23 years...