Word: revisionists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revisionist western. Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. Frontier life was no idyll; it was filth and boredom punctuated by dumb gunplay. Manhood: why, that's just male vanity, and women can be mutilated for mocking it. The idea of straight shooting as an earnest of heroism -- that's bunk too; it was mostly drunks killing drunks. Unforgiven even gets you musing about death in the movies. "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," Will tells a young hombre (Jaimz Woolvett...
...GOEBBELS. (His description of Kristallnacht: "The sky is blood red. The synagogue is burning. Bravo! Bravo!") The controversy this time, however, does not revolve around whether the diaries are genuine; parts have already been authenticated and published. Instead, it centers on the paper's hiring of the pro-Nazi revisionist historian David Irving to handle the project. Among other things, Irving denies that the Holocaust happened, calling the Auschwitz gas chambers "a figment of British propaganda," and claims that Hitler was unfairly vilified for his role in World War II atrocities...
...memory is certainly flawed; my realfirst year at Harvard was doubtless less idyllicthan the revisionist version I've concocted here.But on the other hand, I can't remember feelingvisceral anguish back then. Today--with two moreyears of "wisdom" under my belt--wrenching angstis the primary hue in my emotional palette. Ican't decide whether having such a good first yearwas a blessing or not. Maybe if it had sucked Iwould have been more prepared for what was tocome. Ultimately, maybe that would have beenbetter...
...surrender ultimatum that made clear that Japan could retain its Emperor. Likewise McCullough skirts the tortured debate on "atomic diplomacy," reducing it to the question of whether the Bomb was dropped in part to frighten the Soviets and then quickly dismissing this theory without exploring the complexities of revisionist arguments over the causes of the cold...
Some Chicagoans will be unhappy to see one of their favorite paintings in the Art Institute, the cat-eyed, Balthus-like Young Woman at an Open Half- Door, signed "Rembrandt f. 1645," being given to Hoogstraten. And hell may freeze over before everyone accepts the revisionist view that the sublime Polish Rider, in New York City's Frick Collection, is really by "Rembrandt...