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...take so literal a view is to miss one overwhelming characteristic of Malcolm X's thought, his integration of history, religion and mythology, and his profound and necessary sense of history's possibilities as a man-created aid to faith and policy. Browbeaten by the delusions of science and scholarship, white society has lately and perhaps foolishly begun to discard such conceptions. But it takes shortness of memory or lack of imagination or both not to see that W. D. Fard's cyclical vision is hardly more farfetched than the mythology of Marxism, which also explains past...
...first 20 years of his career, Shahn's hates were what his public loved best-his scarifying gouaches of the 1921 Sacco-Vanzetti trial, his browbeaten bread-liners of the Depression, his concentration-camp victims of World War II. Since the mid-1950s, however, his work has mellowed. Nowadays, Shahn's gift is spurred as often by fondness as it is by rancor...
...critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble is, as one anticritic remarked, they are now saying more...
Janssen's savage and savagely portrayed world is in many ways familiar. The lineal ancestry of brutish whores and demonic cripples, bloated dwarfs and twisted drunkards, perverted bourgeois and browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...
Having been browbeaten by French farm deadlines for so long, the other five were astounded and even outraged. Snapped Hallstein: "The obstinate maintaining of divisive internal antagonisms could make Europe the Balkans of the world." It was nonetheless a diplomatic tour de force-the one French response no one had anticipated. Even more, it was a reminder of how bitterly De Gaulle will resist creeping supranationalism. Resisting the Eurocrats' push for unity by delaying the farm plan will cost France and its farmers at least $1 billion between...