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He was hailed by critics like the formidable Douglas Cooper -- whose vociferous dislike of De Stael's later work contributed to the depression that caused the painter to jump from his own balcony in Antibes -- as "the most considerable, the truest and the most fascinating young painter to appear on...
The chief strength of German theater is also its weakness: the primary creative figure is the director, not the writer or actor, and thus style, imagery and "concept" dominate the more human appeals of having a story and finding an emotional way to tell it. Performers are often treated like...
The analysis follows in the tradition of cyclical historians, such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who see alternating periods of civic action and reaction. But Phillips is not a hand-wringing liberal pining for a return to power; he is a conservative political scientist who once worked for Richard Nixon. For...
So why is the hard line now developing in Congress? Part of the explanation is that some conservatives would be left with little to do since one reason for their existence is to promote hostility toward the Kremlin. Other legislators who have no nostalgia for the cold war nonetheless think...
"If the endowment has one weakness, it iscontext," Meyer says. "The way pieces fit togetherhas to be worked on. We have to make sure that ourpolicy is suited to Harvard's spendingrequirements and risk requirements."