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Hughes' new book of essays, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (Oxford University Press), has just been published. Next he'll write and narrate an eight-hour TV series on American art, called American Visions. Working on it, he became fascinated by how little Americans know about their early art and its role in the nation's life. He recalls Adams' contemporary, Thomas Jefferson, admiring the Maison Carree at Nimes in France. Moved by its classical structure, he decided it should be the model for the new capitol in Richmond, Virginia. "Noble, astringent, eloquent," remarks Hughes, "just what...
Edward Roger J. Owen, an expert in modern Middle Eastern political and economic history from Oxford University, has accepted a tenured position in the History department...
Henry won the 800 meter run with a time of 1:500, beating highly touted Andrew Lill of Oxford-Cambridge by only eight-tenths of a second...
From Robert Hughes, TIME's tireless art critic, comes Culture of Complaint (Oxford University Press), a lacerating study of the decline in American values that will surely raise amens among many people, as well as hackles among others. The book is an expanded version of a three-part lecture series that Hughes gave early last year at the New York Public Library and subsequently summarized in a TIME cover story, "The Fraying of America" ((Feb. 3, 1992)). Among his complaints: the distortion of the ideals of multiculturalism, the erosion of the English language by partisans of the Politically Correct...
...Tobias says, he was kicked out of Hill for ignorance and bad ) behavior. His memoir ends there, but his life didn't. He went on to serve in Vietnam as an adviser to a Vietnamese regiment in the Delta during the Tet offensive. Then he got a degree at Oxford. He worked for a few months as a reporter at the Washington Post, then quit to invent himself again, this time truthfully, as a fiction writer...