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There is an edge of smugness in the view of Monet that attributes his claim on our eyes to his modernity, we are prone to use the past as gratification, and think it good because it made us possible. But Monet did not labor for the sake of Philip Guston or Sam Francis. His actual greatness resides in the way in which he marked, and then transcended, his own cultural perimeter. He provoked Impressionism rather as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon provoked Cubism; and the crucial encounter here was with an older painter, Eugene-Louis Boudin, whom...
...largely unshared duty to determine and preserve the degree of internal security necessary to exercise that power successfully. It is an awesome responsibility requiring judgment and wisdom of a high order. A very first principle of that wisdom would be an insistence upon avoiding secrecy for its own sake. For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion...
AFTER a fortnight of legal fencing, the showdown shaped up late last week before the U.S. Supreme Court. A Government bent on preserving secrets for the sake of national security faced a press determined to print the facts as laid down in the now-celebrated Pentagon papers. All week long, the Government fought a running battle with restraining orders against two of the country's most respected newspapers. Attorneys for the New York Times and the Washington Post pounded away at the seldom-invoked practice of "prior restraint," arguing that the public's right to know...
...When he opens his mouth," says the 1936 yearbook of La Salle Academy in Providence, R.I., "Bernie does it for the sake of saying something, not merely exercising his jaws." Last week "Bernie"-the Most Rev. Bernard M. Kelly, auxiliary bishop of Providence -said something pointed enough to be heard in Rome. In a letter sent to his bishop and all the priests of his diocese, Kelly announced that he had developed an "abiding sense of frustration" with the majority of his fellow bishops, who "are more concerned with Communion in the hand than the war in Viet...
...dreary variation on her basic Five Easy Pieces performance. It should be pointed out that the title of Nicholson's movie, and the Jeremy Larner novel before it, is derived from a fine short poem by Robert Creeley, which ends "drive, he sd, for/ christ's sake, look/ out where yr going." It is a pointed, challenging caution that Nicholson badly needs to heed...