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Somebody or other recently commented that "an artist is most isolated yet most exposed in a drawing, since nothing else comes so purely from within him or shows him to us more intimately." Lang's drawings are definitely his forte. They present his refreshing sense of harmony in its purest form. He handles the medium with such case that questions of mastery become irrelevant and he leaves us free to lose ourselves in his lyrical themes...
...Citizens' Councils and the polemical author of Black Monday, a Negro-baiting tract attacking the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision. Brady, then a state Circuit Court judge, insisted that the decision was "not the law of the land." Said he: "The loveliest and the purest of God's creatures, the nearest thing to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball is a well-bred, cultured Southern white woman, or her blue-eyed, golden-haired little girl." By contrast, he added: "The social, political, economic and religious preferences of the Negro remain close...
Adding insult to injury was the fact that the man who invoked this so-called "21-day" rule was Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Labor and Education Committee and by any standard the House's purest demagogue. Floor Manager Powell attempted to limit debate to two hours; but amid Republican demands for more time, he and Speaker John McCormack decided to permit five hours, despite Powell's lament that the delay would force him to break a $1,500 speaking engagement in Austin, Texas...
...major works and to persuade U.S. readers that Hesse is essential to their ethos. It will not be easy. Hesse is relentlessly esoteric-one of those Faustian fellows who make Moholes out of moleholes. Yet in the judgment of most German critics, he is one of the purest lyric poets since Moerike, and among the most profound of the many novelists who elaborate the drama of modern man in search of his soul...
...response was historic. Soon after Beatrice's death, Dante published La Vita Nuova (The New Life), a history of his passion that was interspersed with some of the purest love lyrics in the language. Some time before 1294, still in his 20s, Dante married a Florentine noblewoman named Gemma Donati, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. He also instituted a series of sensual liaisons, and to one of these women he wrote some of the most ferocious love poetry ever penned...