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...letter explaining the proposal to 65,000 Duke alumni, a terrible uproar arose. Professors, pro and con, outdid themselves with historical allusions. The Nixon Library was likened to a Trojan horse ("I fear Government officials bearing gifts") and an archival "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("We will not possess it. It will possess us"). Wits wondered if Duke could call it the Watergate Memorial Library. On Aug. 19 Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money for the Harry Truman Library, resigned to protest a plan that, he said, would inevitably result in a memorial to Nixon...
Nobody doubts that the Mujahedin possess the stealth, cunning and means to carry out such a lethal operation. They once put under the brass cover of a rice dish a bomb that killed one of the Shah's judges as he pondered the fate of some guerrillas. They have other skills as well...
...William Boteler of Baltimore, who went to Bolivia a dozen years ago, feels that continual incidents of police torture and murder are an outgrowth of distorted family values. "You have people who don't possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled...
Those who found him inspiring were right. Those who find him inhibiting are also right, for Rodin was a man of 19th century amplitude and not 20th century doubt. What sculptor, today, could one expect to possess such reserves of feeling, such an indifference to the errors of his own fecundity, or so unrestrained a tragic sense? To compare him with Michelangelo is not, in the end, impertinent, for Rodin was one of the last artists to live and work in the belief that making sculpture-despite the potboilers and failures in his output-was a moral act, that...
Mark Helprin has the knack of creating exquisite tensions without disturbing the surface of his stories. And he understands the fabulist's task: "Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes...