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"Ubu Roi," Alfred Jarry's absurd 1896 play from which the musical "Ubu Rock" was adapted, is a farce that was originally written to mock Jarry's arrogant math teacher. It is the story of how a revolting, scatological member of the wealthy bourgeoisie takes over Poland. Audiences were disgusted...
As far as Mr. Duehay is concerned, if his performance on Feb. 20 as acting chair of the school committee is any indication of his objectivity, as the senior member of the school committee. I urge the City Council to provide our committee with a permanent chair who seeks to...
Harvard's enormous collection allows possible Assistant Curator Emilie Norris' historiographical approach. She has organized the pieces around a modest controversy, Feininger's nationality, which raged, momentarily, in the early 1930s when Feininger was living in Germany. Curators had a hard time classifying Feininger because though he moved to Germany...
To put it another way, if you were a happily acknowledged anti-Semite, you might not have a record so different from Buchanan's accumulated words and positions. As New York's Mayor Giuliani last week complained, Buchanan was an ardent defender of Karl Linnas, the convicted Nazi war criminal...
Reviewing this background, historian Alfred E. Eckes Jr. has lately come up with one of the few intellectual arguments Buchanan has been able to cite. In a 1995 book, Opening America's Market, Eckes argues that the protectionist U.S. grew much faster than free-trade Britain between 1871 and 1913...