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...been taking place a year ago will finally resume. In the interim, Argentina stumbles back toward the democratic process, Margaret Thatcher rises above the opposition on the backs of British soldiers. Ronald Reagan pursues the option of war by proxy in Central America, and the Falklands remain a sad testament to intransigence, ambition, and stupidity...
...dispatched to Spain by the party in order to expose German and Italian intervention for Franco in the civil war. He was arrested by the Falangists and subsequently spent three months in solitary confinement in the Central Prison of Seville. From that experience came a book, Spanish Testament, and the germ of an idea for his masterpiece, Darkness at Noon...
Your review of "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" [Feb. 14] is a disturbing testament to the insensitivity and isolation of art critics. Exhibitions like the one now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art give people who cannot afford a trip to Rome, London or Paris an opportunity to see great works...
This idea comes to light in the report's basic principle of "indirect responsibility," an old principle, needing little clarification. What the Israeli commission called indirect responsibility, Thomas Aquinas deemed the sin of omission, and the concept antedates Aquinas in the Old Testament prophets. In domestic law it goes by the name of negligence. The application is familiar: by doing nothing to prevent a wrongful act, in spite of having the power to do so, one shares a portion of the blame. It may go further. If one sets into motion a train of events that lead...
Hemingway once said that there are only five real themes in all of literature; The Lords of Discipline is slavishly based on one of the tried-and-true. Fans of the New Testament should recognize a lot of the action. There are good guys and bad guys. The bad guys sneer most of the time, and put razor blades in the sneakers of Pierce, the first Black cadet in the Institute's history. Will, the hero, talks a lot about saving the Black cadet from his tormentors because it's the "right" thing to do, turning the other cheek...