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...should be considered, an historic event. But why? Some may claim to have known all along that a fast enough computer would be able to defeat any human, even the very best. If a human is stronger, then the computer only need be that much faster. So if none of this is news, why should May 11, 1997--the first time a computer beat a reigning world champion in a match--be considered the date to immortalize...
Marv, you are the best broadcaster out there, bar none (and doubly bar Walton). When we mimic your deliberate, brilliantly understated announcing style, we do so with nothing less than total admiration...
...None of these is uniquely American. All take on a peculiarly American cast. "What, then," asked a visiting Frenchman, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, back in the 1780s, "is this American, this new man?" The things and images in these pages represent some of the ways in which Americans themselves have created their partial and sometimes contradictory answers to that riddle...
There was, however, a more positive and socially responsible side to this. The "American Renaissance" also produced some of the finest public buildings of the 19th century. There had been noble churches in the U.S. before, but none as boldly resplendent in space and decor as Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church (1872-97) in Boston. There had been libraries too, but none as ambitious as the great Boston Public Library (1887-95), designed by McKim, Mead & White. The library was the first major public building in the neo-Italian Renaissance style that was to become de rigueur in formal...
...American art, social memory can surface in odd, oblique ways. There is no big commemorative painting--or none of any merit--that shows a battle from the worst trauma in the country's history, the Civil War. In fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war and has only one figure in it. It is The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In an earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This...