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...30s, Adams made a living from commercial work of every kind: advertising photography, industrial brochures and journalistic work for magazines like FORTUNE and LIFE. His letters to Stieglitz were full of scorn for his commercial patrons. But in the meantime he was earning, among other colleagues, a reputation as the least socially committed of serious American photographers. As Henri Cartier-Bresson once remarked, "The world is falling to pieces?and Weston and Adams are doing pictures of rocks!" Adams refused to deal with the standard subjects of post-Depression America, the breadlines, Okies, rallies and bums. When he photographed...
...revisionist group of economists, eclectic and unorthodox, is on the rise, and they have provocative views about what has mucked up the economy and how to start fixing it. These academics, still in their 30s or early 40s, admit to many more questions than answers and are sometimes unfairly dismissed by their more traditionalist colleagues as "N.C.s" (Neanderthal Conservatives). Hardly Neanderthal, they are instead moderate, pragmatic economists of the late 1970s who are bringing fresh air, and fresh hope, to the dismal science. Says Rudolph Penner, head of tax-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "The exciting ideas...
...tradition, far from the self-consciousness and media-play of Pop. They resemble, as the late Mark Rothko once said, "walk-in Hoppers," sculptural equivalents to the world of that American master, with its nocturnal bars and waiting figures. Segal's tableaux have a flavor of the '30s-overlaid, now and then, with a sharp erotic curiosity. Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein, one is treated to an unremitting earnestness, a moral concern with the voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures. It is a somber sight, this "populist...
...natural choice. At 50, Wiesel has the bearing and diction of an Old Testament prophet. His books and many articles are scrolls of agony, depicting as pects of the Jewish tragedy of the '30s and '40s that, in his view, "blighted and still blights civilization...
...carve out new law. Hill also believes deeply in the concept of the judiciary that he learned "at the feet of Felix Frankfurter" when the late Supreme Court Justice was a teacher and Hill a student at Harvard Law School in the late '30s. Says Hill: "Frankfurter had a very strong and very well-thought-out concept of judicial restraint that would have kept the courts out of many political matters and out of the daily supervision of institutions." Hill is wary of judges who too willingly become custodians of prisons or school systems...