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...edged Sword...
When changes are made in the hierarchy of the Soviet Union, they often prove to be a case of strapping the same old collars onto fresh dogs. Last week the Kremlin named two men to top posts in the Soviet hierarchy, one to wield the sword and the other the pen. Though the shifts indicated no policy changes, they did produce new names and faces that the West will be hearing and seeing for some time...
When the time comes for the historian to get the sense of what life was like for the British between and during the two big wars, he will be better off turning to fiction than to journalism. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World...
...critic of his times, Hogarth was the visual counterpart to his great verbal contemporaries-Swift, Pope and Defoe. "The proper study of mankind is man," wrote Pope; Hogarth agreed in paint. Satire was his sword-and just how sharp it was can be seen in the current exhibition of 110 paintings, prints and drawings at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the biggest public showing of Hogarth in U.S. history...
...different from the Church of Rome. Luther and Calvin reworked Augustine's just-war doctrines, but the religious wars following the Reformation and periodic outbursts of heresy-hunting discarded the Sermon on the Mount for the text from Jeremiah: "Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood...