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...Shone writes in the catalog, Sickert's career ran parallel to all the great Modernist movements from the 1880s to the 1930s but belonged to none of them. He was "a passionately self-isolating figure . . . highly individual, combining expected elements of the European mainstream with personal tastes that can appear willful or mandatory." He was also a witty and truthful art critic, whose essays and journalism, collected in 1947 by Osbert Sitwell under the title A Free House!, are never dull and often possess a Shavian energy. Courageous to the point of eccentricity, Sickert always followed his own nose...
...third sequence, "A monument in Utopia," draws a parallel between the death of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin and the death of poetry itself in a cynical society. Primarily concerned with images of death and destruction, the third sequence also holds out a ray of hope for resurrection, a rebirth of faith and idealism. By the end of the third sequence, Schnackenberg encapsulates the whole pageant of human history in a few line...
Only in America has power been passed to a new generation that defines the world in terms of post-cold-war economic realities. The John Kennedy parallel is inescapable -- how vividly his sporting vitality contrasted with the solemn visages of Harold Macmillan, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. Once again it seems apt to recall William Wordsworth's lines in thrall of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very Heaven...
...verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence as Casey's passport or hundreds of hours of vital FBI surveillance tapes. Perhaps a parallel House investigation expected next year will be more enlightening...
...baseball, I saw a divine parallel for life itself: Men striving against their own limits to attain, through concentration and effort, the perfection that eludes, and by touching this plane, to gain a small measure of immortality...