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...away. Once again, if one can judge from the attendance at the Sargent show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington (through May 31, and then through the summer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), he has a big public. Are its crowded galleries just another symptom of the explosion in the size of the public for U.S. museums? Or is there a new audience out there for the pictorial virtuosity Sargent represents? The latter, one hopes, but it's hard to tell...
...past victories in the struggle for equality because we have to keep fighting the same debilitating battles over and over. Every time an outrage like the Diallo shooting occurs, many whites treat it like a tragic exception in an otherwise fair and just system, rather than as a symptom of chronic racial injustice. Raise a fuss about continuing racism and you're accused of exaggerating or imagining things...
...classic chest-crushing pain that is the hallmark of a heart attack turns out to be mainly a male symptom. Women's heart attacks, by contrast, tend to show up as shortness of breath, fatigue and jaw pain, stretched out over hours rather than minutes...
That buyout-a retirement package for veteran guards still hasn't come from Harvard. And, in the eyes of many guards, Skochla's death is partly a symptom of decaying morale within their force...
This dignified poetry avoids personal topicsand instead speaks to the "you" and the "we," asif the poet effaced himself in order to write foreveryone, a symptom of Herbert's interest inpolitics. Yet it does possess a strong strain ofhumor, even if it's found mainly on the backsidesof more depressing themes. In "What Our Dead Do,"Herbert hazards that the dead "hunt for jobs /whisper the numbers of lottery tickets," thensomberly notes that we imagine them "snug as theburrow of a mouse." Surely that comparison makesthe daily grind of errands and ambition seem likedeath. In one of his most priceless...