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Kristol also states an overriding theme among the Public Interest group: the dangers of populist paranoia and moralism, which suspects that powerful interests are constantly thwarting democratic will. This populism gives rise to "a rather infantile political utopianism," is often found on the pages of The New Yorker and is responsible (according to Robert Nisbet) for crimes as varied as the damaging disclosures about the CIA and the HEW's ban on single-sex classes...
Died. Frank Sullivan, 83, gentle humorist and supreme authority on American clichés who for 50 years gave the benefit of his amiable wit to the readers of the old New York World, The New Yorker magazine and his twelve books; after a long illness; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A native of Saratoga Springs, Sullivan knuckled down to work at age ten, pumping water for thirsty bettors at the nearby race track. He graduated from Cornell in 1914, and headed home to report for the local Saratogian at $7 a week. After World War I, Sullivan moved...
...Trock impressed the New Yorker's Arlene Croce, perhaps the sternest dance critic of all. Reviewing Bassae/Karpova's performance in the Don Quixote, Croce wrote: "Karpova, I believe, gave a better performance than the Bolshoi's Nina Sorokina. There was more wit, more plasticity, more elegance and even more femininity in Karpova's balances and kneeling backbends than in all of Sorokina's tricks." The Track's recent winter season drew such eminent visitors as Jerome Robbins and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sighed Bassae: "After 20 years of dancing I finally made it when...
...Vidal entered Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and, echoing his grandfather's fierce isolationism, soon joined the school's America First movement. "He fancied himself a campus politician," recalls Classmate Robert Bingham, now an editor at The New Yorker. Student government allowed Vidal to act out childhood dreams. "There was a senate," Bingham says, "and he pretended to represent Oklahoma. He threw himself into it, and I'm sure he saw himself as a Senator." A streak of vanity surfaced; opponents noticed that Vidal always presented his better profile during debates. A less-than-brilliant student...
...Comparing Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings and Herschel Levit's photographs of Rome, exhibited together in the MFA, is a fascinating study in perceptive, historical or otherwise When the 18th century Italian looks at these imperial Roman monuments he sees a totally different structure than the 20th century New Yorker does. One wonders which has changed more; Rome or the ways people have looked...