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Such contradictions are not new. They were present in the American republic from its inception. The young United States that slaughtered its native inhabitants, enslaved its imported ones, and enfranchised mostly property-owners was hardly unequivocally committed to the equality it began by proclaiming self-evident. But neither this fact...
"What else could we do? Give everything for practically nothing?" With those rhetorical questions, Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin defended his country's stance during the Kissinger negotiations and placed the blame for the breakdown on Egypt during an hour-long interview last week with TIME'S...
To have influenced a great artist may not make a painter great, but it does help make him interesting; and probably no one had more impact on William Blake than John Henry Fuseli. To look at Blake's nudes and then at Fu-seli's, with their rhetorical...
The problem is that collectivism may make good revolutions, but it doesn't necessarily make good theater. Even in the revolution there are individuals. Tania gives us too many chants and slogans and not enough character development, too many shining, upraised eyes and not enough genuine emotion. Especially in the...
Revisionist Nostalgia. But Benton lived long enough to feel the coming of another revival. His easel paintings now fetch up to $90,000, a fat $40 book on him was published last year, and next year's Bicentennial will pour gallons of revisionist nostalgia upon the American regionalists-Benton...