Word: pastorale
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Twombly was one of the first American artists to interest himself in graffiti. Forty years ago, the term didn't suggest city kids' spraying their aggressive colored tags all over subway cars and buildings. It wasn't bound up with the seizure and degradation of public space. It was, so...
When Boston sports fans look back on the final cancellation of the remainder of the 1994 baseball season, they very well may remember only that it came four days before the Patriots' first win. Baseball is loosening its own stranglehold on the American mind. Why is it the quintessential American...
And here are Burns and co-writer Geoffrey C. Ward, in the elegiac introduction to the series (as well as to the hefty companion book being issued simultaneously by Knopf): "At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating...
And there is an unquantifiable loss. The pastoral joys of baseball, joys that no other sport can match, have dissipated. That final prestrike game at Oakland Coliseum last Thursday night can serve as a parable. A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker...
Defenders of justifiable homicide make a simple, if scary, argument: if abortion is murder, then any means to prevent it -- even murder -- is morally justified. Says Roman Catholic priest David Trosch, perhaps the most vocal proponent of this view: "If a person with a shotgun happened upon the scene of...