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Pere Enfantin's vest is close to that great therapeutic invention of the time, the straitjacket. You can't look without dread at the photos and engravings of panopticons, meeting houses, commune buildings, phalansteries and other social-idealist architecture in the 19th century stretch of this show. They resemble prisons and nunneries because they were prisons and nunneries, the difference being that the prisons meant to keep sinners in, whereas the Utopian buildings aimed to keep them out. But the same grim coerciveness suffused both, as we know from their ultimate state forms in the 20th century: Nazism and communism...
...feel strongly that Mohandas Gandhi, who came close to being chosen the Person of the 20th Century by your magazine, is one of the people who was overlooked by the Nobel committee. He should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. On second thought, however, if the Mahatma had been given the Peace Prize, it would have been the Nobel Foundation that was honored! SORAIYUR V. RAMAN Wassenaar, the Netherlands...
...this election so close? Because too many people see money up, crime down and their own gardens in bloom, and thus conclude that matters of public policy have no connection to their life. So they focus on nonsense. They tilt toward Bush in the debates out of some adolescent response to powerlessness and ineptitude. They tilt away from Gore because he appears to know that he's intellectually superior to and more civic-minded than his opponent...
...spoke with Gore in his hotel room the week before last. Having completed a day of Regis, Oprah, Saturday Night Live and the Al Smith dinner, and set to wake up at 5 a.m. to do the Today show, he stretched out and had a beer. It was close to midnight. He should have been exhausted. Instead, in answer to my questions, he sailed into exquisitely detailed, many-referenced and well-over-my-head explanations of the economy, the arms race and anything else his mind embraced...
...Suddenly everybody's a tech-stock bargain hunter as investors decided Tuesday they'd had enough of the blues and bought the NASDAQ up 177 points by the close. Cisco cleared its personal floor of $50 again, Oracle hit $34, and dot-commers Expedia and eToys got a few bonus points for losing less money than everybody expected. Is this the floor of floors...