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Brezhnev and his comrades, moreover, have accomplished the buildup without resorting to mass terror or wholesale purges. They have presided over 16 years of political stability?"the first such period since the revolution," says British Historian Leonard Schapiro. Nikita Khrushchev, while a much more sympathetic figure in many ways, ordered reforms one day, crackdowns the next, and engaged, as his comrades-turned-usurpers charged, in "harebrained schemes." His was a manic-depressive leadership. Before him were 25 years of Stalin's government by massacre. The toll: at least 20 million dead in camps, prisons and famines. Before that, the civil...
Harvard guards Tom Mannix and Robert Taylor repeatedly hit forward Don Fleming for back door layups as the Brandeis defenders struggled to unglue their sneakers from the floor of Schapiro Athletic Center...
...first variety, Schapiro's study of the "Apples of Cezanne" is fascinating. Schapiro notes the central place given to apples in Cezanne's still lifes and explores the source of his choice of objects. Schapiro leads the reader through Cezanne's early paintings and writings to point out Cezannes's association of fruit and nudity and his particular use of apples to indicate "displaced erotic interest...
...second variety, Schapiro studies Van Gogh's "Crows Over the What Fields" in an attempt to understand the artist's last painting before suicide. This psychological essay probes the mood of the painter, analyzing Van Gogh's artistic devices. Schapiro points to the loss of focus, the uncertain movement and orientation and the unstable brush strokes that contrast with the painter's style in earlier pictures. In addition to noting Van Gogh's stylistic decay Schapiro adds that the painter was aware of this decay; thus his unusual attempt at structuring a painting...
WHEN MEYER SCHAPIRO began to analyze modern art in the 1940's, he brought with him the distinguished reputation of a medieval scholar and the enthusiasm for a new project. Now, 30 years later, he has collected ten essays which allow him to interweave artistic theory and specific case studies with great skill and ease. Although his unclear writing and intolerant posture often mar Modern Art, Schapiro's analyses are intriguing and worth reading...