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...finally, there is an almost mystical quality that suffuses his relationship to music. Through it, Chen has found moments of seemingly transcendent illumination. "It's like when you are trying to focus a camera. So you strive to have that moment again, but you can't make it every time...
...three powerful critics named Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg. These Svengalis have dictated what shall be painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made only to illustrate their theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because Wolfe did not invent philistinism...
Familiar Pleas. Okun argues that the U.S. can do much to create a more equitable economy while leaving the market free. Some of his ideas are familiar pleas of liberal reformers: he would have the Government strive to improve opportunities for the poor through more job-training programs and make certain that all low-income families receive food stamps, housing allowances and Medicaid. "The cliché should at least be validated," he says. "The market should not be allowed to legislate life and death...
...President of the U.S. is after Sam's famous name for a National Child Center. At the denim end of the political fabric, a band of radical youths known as the Children of Liberty arrogantly demand his support against the Establishment. In between, friends, disciples and devotees strive to keep old Sam buttoned to their own self-interest...
Here we are at the core of Ullmann's misconception of the role. Her Nora does not grow toward self-awareness or strive for emancipation (as Claire Bloom's so affectingly did a few seasons ago). Instead, she simply seems to assert herself by different methods. Thus there is no sense of either exhilaration or poignance in her departure...