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Combined with the self-conscious Orientalism and discussion thereof that crops up in the first half of the play--Mary: "English is a vehicle, and its engine is empire." Fanny: "Stuff!"--we're primed for a critique of capitalism, or for a semiotical analysis of post-war America. Yet the play's treatment of kitsch goes no farther than to make the point that '50s consumer products would look pretty weird to Victorian dames. For example, during their voyage through time the intrepid adventurers keep coming across egg-beaters. "Totem!" "Talisman!" "Taboo!" they conjecture, and develop the practice of spinning...
...mentioned the Marshall Plan as evidence of Harvard's role in European alliances. That plan, which promised American aid for post-war reconstruction, was announced at the 1947 Commencement...
...world at large, trials will send a message: genocide will not be allowed. It would be naive, of course, to assume that punishment for murderers in Rwanda would deter all others. Nuremberg, after all, did little to end atrocities in the post-war era. But justice in Rwanda would be a step toward making international law binding. The other ongoing tribunal, in Bosnia, is hampered by the inability to apprehend suspects and the opposition of UN negotiators, who want to avoid angering the Bosnian Serbs. Rwanda is the best chance...
Through Dec. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in abstract Art." From its origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current co-Existence with other approaches to imagemaking...
Through Dec. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art: From its origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking...