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...epoch-making period of new world orders and democracies," she said. "We will be held accountable by history, and none can say they stood by passive. Rarely have we had such a window of opportunity. I urge all to seize it and make the new world order one of equality and peace...
...none of those things" is something like what Buchanan says to nearly every charge that's thrown against him. What contradicts him, however, is much of what he's said in the past. He also still insists he's a Republican, though one who sounds like he's having second thoughts...
This faith in a new world order induced by art collapsed soon enough; today it looks like a fossil from the early Messianic era of modernism. In fact, none of the more exalted claims made for abstract art over the past century have worn well. In the first flush of optimism after the 1917 Revolution, artists like Vladimir Tatlin hoped that abstraction, if made of the common materials used by workers, could lift dialectical materialism to a new plane and so become the basis of a popular art. These dreams ended in indifference and, for some, the Gulag...
...this moment my own blocking situation is sketchy, at best. I know I have somewhere to go, people to live with, but none of it is certain. There are others like me out there--anxious, confused and content to live in their freshman dorms forever. In fact, I'll probably end up blocking with them. But right now, the dreaded blocking preparations have been weighing on my mind even more than the week's worth of neglected reading that awaits. Oh, the agony...
Playing his funky square guitar, the seated Diddley led his band through rockabilly, Motown, and delta blues numbers with occasional Carribean and rap infusions. The mostly danceable tunes were as quirky and fun as his guitar solos. There was none of the guitar-hero intensity of the likes of Buddy Guy; Mr. Diddley had little to prove. His authentic down-home blues riffs came simply and naturally, projecting an expressive but hey-let's-just-have-some-fun attitude...