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GYPSIES HAVE TRADITIONALLY been the untouchables of Europe, lowest of the low. In medieval Romania, a Gypsy could be bought and sold as chattel, often for the price of a pig. In 18th century Prussia, Gypsies over 18 could be hanged without trial solely on the ground that their itinerant...
Amid such complex strategic considerations, the human need for peace is sometimes lost. Last week, when a U.N. convoy made the first unimpeded run into the Muslim enclave of Gorazde since 1992, those on board encountered a city that in little more than 36 months has been transformed from a...
Although he belonged to a distinguished St. Petersburg family with medieval roots and country estates, Nabokov never sentimentalized the old regime. Not for him the romance of serf and turf. He was above all a cultural and intellectual aristocrat, part of the Russian liberal class whose hopes for democracy were...
For Mondrian was the supreme Platonist of modernism. He believed that his grids, representing nothing but themselves and, as Plato said of his perfect solids, "free from the itch of desire," could demonstrate a universal order, an essence that underwrote the mere accidents of the world as it is. Reach...
Dinner theater: the very phrase brightens eyes in this nation of snackaholics. Movie-house owners have long catered to the eat-and-art urge, as the stalagmites of chewing gum and Jujyfruits on the floor of the local Googolplex will attest to future archaeologists. In the past decade, producers of...