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...such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are not accidents. They reflect the extent to which the forces of political correctness and historical revisionism, having captured the universities, have now moved out to dominate our museums and other institutions of national culture...
Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust...
...rest of the exhibition is subtler, tamer and less effective. Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust delivers what its title promises, but not necessarily what the visitor expects. All thirty-one artists involved were born after World War II. Although there are some direct responses to the Holocaust itself, many of the works displayed are responses to response, depictions of secondhand guilt. Several of the artists are groping in the dark, trying to understand stories which were never spoken, and history which was never quite revealed to them. In their art, they try to grasp the meaning...
...November. While asking administrators at New Jersey's state university to permit more flexibility on admitting minority students, Lawrence had said that they lack the genetic background to do well on entrance exams. Lawrence apologized after the comments were publicized last week, and insists that the remarks do not reflect his views. There is speculation that people hostile to Lawrence released a tape of his remarks to the press, New Jersey sources told TIME correspondent Bonnie Angelo. Angelo notes that Lawrence's plans to change the Rutgers tenure system have made him enemies among the faculty...
...dwindling political capital in an all-out drive for his job-retraining programs. Upgrading worker skills remains the surest route to increased incomes. As Clinton says, ``What you earn depends on what you learn; the most effective way to help is to make workers more productive because wages reflect the value of what people produce...