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...Whiteness of the Whale, an open invitation to connect his work to Melville, who wrote of Moby Dick in a celebrated passage: "But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness...why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind." Naturally, to invoke Melville does not make Sam Francis the Melville of painting. Yet his best work sometimes touches an epic quality that makes...
...When an earlier activist President, James K. Polk sent troops into Mexico and then demanded that Congress approve his action, Senator John C. Calhoun declared that the deed "stripped Congress of the power of making war, and what was more and worse, it gave that power to every officer nay, to every subaltern commanding a corporal s guard. As before and since, the President got away with...
...Duck? divides a genre into four cavorters: Zeppo, once charitably labeled the Good Looking One; Harpo, Rumpelstiltskin with mild satyriasis; Chico, the Italian Defamation League; and the great, nay immoral Groucho. Under his pun-fulfilled guidance the boys carom delightfully from the primitive surrealism of The Cocoanuts on beyond that neglected antiwar pageant Duck Soup, to the classic double bill, A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera...
...disciples believe, nor a con job, and Jodorowsky is neither messiah nor mountebank. There are scenes of brilliance in El Topo, followed by sequences of unwieldy pretension. The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay...
...term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven years. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired at any time time-Brewster's first seven years just happened to be coming to a close and, to no one's surprise he was allowed-nay, encouraged -to remain at his post. In that same speech, however, he dismissed unilaterally the growing pressure for student representation in university decisions. Students don't want power, Brewster revealed, they really want responsivencss (whatever that meant) from the administration. And he planned to supply them with all the responsiveness they...