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...19th Amendment seemed to promise much. It had long been urged not only as a matter of women's rights but as a purification of the political system. Its supporters claimed that women, because of their supposedly higher nature, would vote for measures humane and virtuous, and that they would do so en masse. "The civilization of the world is saved," gushed Democratic Presidential Nominee James Cox in 1920. "The mothers of America will stay the hand...
...enfant terrible of the House floor, right-wing Republican Newt Gingrich, 40, of Georgia, scales the rhetorical heights by quoting Winston Churchill about the years before World War II: "The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...
...resurgence of expressionist figuration offers a way out of the cul-de-sac in which German painting and sculpture found themselves after 1945. Hitler had trashed the avantgarde, driving modernism into exile or up the chimney. For a quarter of a century after that, German artists wore the virtuous American uniform of abstract art, as proof of their denazification. Now they breathe easier among their inherited imagery. At the same time, although there have been many dealers' shows of recent German art in America, museums have been slow to react to it. Consequently the exhibition that opened in June...
...system more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride...They harbour no thought--but what power...
When the U.S. had a nuclear monopoly it may not have always acted in a perfectly virtuous fashion, but it did support and defend freedom throughout the world, and it managed to keep the peace. In the light of the invasions of Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979), the crushing of dissent in Poland, and the unleashing of Cubans upon Angola and Vietnamese upon Cambodia, who would have preferred to see a Soviet nuclear monopoly in the years 1945-49, or would like to see Soviet superiority in the future? Eric Stocked...