Word: pastorale
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Never underestimate the power of sex to rile even such a relatively unflappable body as the Episcopal Church. The influential 2.5 million-member denomination has tolerated more progressive behavior than most Protestant groups; some liberal dioceses have held same-sex marriages and ordained gay clergy. Yet official church doctrine has...
; If moral opinion is a subtext in Cole's landscapes, it is the essence of his big historical-didactic cycles, notably The Course of Empire, five large allegorical paintings of the rise and fall of an imaginary state -- by implication, America -- that he did for Luman Reed at the then...
Such things make an artist feel old. As his followers were becoming more prominent, De Kooning was easing himself out of Manhattan, spending more and more time on the South Fork of Long Island. The flat potato fields, beaches and glittering air of that tongue of land must often have...
Having made these criticisms, I have to admit that this record has grown on me a whole lot, and all of my friends seem to be having the same experience. (One just walked out the room, saying, "This has grown on me, a ton.") Malkmus has become addicted to REM...
This remarkable account, reworked and eased of learner's stiffness, is now published as South Wind Changing (Graywolf Press; 320 pages; $20). The author's childhood was pastoral and amazingly peaceful. Although an older brother was a military pilot, the war at first did not touch the island in the...