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...psychological complexity and the deep-running poetic current that came out of it seem (as they seemed to the young Berenson a century ago) peculiarly congenial to modern eyes. His work is sown with recondite allegories, complicated quirks, unexpected twists of meaning. Despite its often ravishing formal beauty, it is full of unease. Apart from Durer's famous etching Melancholia, Renaissance art can show no more poignant portrayal of the way depression freezes both action and curiosity in its sufferers than Lotto's Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1530. It depicts its subject with sallow face, deep dark eyes...
...than "Now don't do that again, Johnny," which goes in one ear and out the other. Undisciplined children grow up to be undisciplined young adults without concern for the rights of others. Those who fell for the New Age philosophy against spanking are now reaping what they have sown. SUE SCHULTZ Jacksonville...
...observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around the monuments of Angkor is the land mines and other explosives sown by both the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese; some 21,000 of these have been found and defused by a French-led international task force since 1993, but plenty are left...
...will be known as the neo-protectionists, whose lack of vision produced financial meltdown; or as the generation that laid the groundwork for rising prosperity around the world. We will be known as the world-class ditherers, who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown; or as the generation that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT HARVARD UNIVERSITY "We will be known as the world-class ditherers who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown, or as the generations that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...Ultimately, it is a matter of judgment, a question of choice...