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Critics of Carter's human rights stance glibly trace his "basic principles and values" back to a Southern Baptist Sunday school outlook. Actually, such moral basics are common to all men of all times; they are found not only in the Bible but in Hindu, Egyptian, Chinese, Norse, Babylonian and Greek texts...
...Gonzaga, Stuart and Medici-that absolute power is absolutely delightful. Rubens was one of the greatest political artists who ever lived, but he had nothing to do with our modern idea of the engage painter: he was no Courbet, but utterly a man of the right. There is no trace of speculative thought in his elaborate allegories. He believed in monarchy, Catholic dogma and the divine right of kings. Fatherless after the age of nine, he reveled in serving strong, authoritarian men. Vitality burgeoning in the midst of a peace guaranteed by authority-such was Rubens' master image...
...called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage boy in Harlem said with a trace of wistfulness: "Christmas is over...
...once round the corner of 1950, the exhibition nosedives into farce. All trace of method evaporates. Its level of historical understanding is so low as to be, in a sense, beyond criticism. There is, for example, no doubt that the main change in modern sculpture-the shift from solid (cast, carved or modeled) to open, constructed form-was largely worked out between Europe and America by the way in which the metal constructions of Gonzalez and Picasso, in the 1930s, provoked David Smith's welded sculptures in the U.S. after World War II. The consequences of the change were...
...product of a new cohesion among the main lobbying groups (the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the N.F.I.B. and the elite Business Roundtable), new tactics and a new awareness by executives that they need to make their voice heard on Capitol Hill. Though some experts trace the speedup in business lobbying efforts to 1973, when AFL-CIO President George Meany's call for election of a "vetoproof Congress prodded corporate leaders into action, all agree that the biggest spur was the election of Jimmy Carter. Says the N.F.I.B.'s Motley: "With Ford in there...