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The very idea of decadence, with all its fleshly titillations and metaphysical phosphorescence, excites that kind of Spenglerian anxiety. A lot of Americans seem inclined to think of themselves as a decadent people: such self-accusation may be the reverse side of the old American self-congratulation. Americans contemplate some...
Now he teaches, spending half a year with the late Stanley Brown before opening his own studio in Boston. Although he says teaching requires a lot of patience, he thinks the rewards outweigh the trials. He adds that he loves to see the smiles of self-congratulation flicker across the...
Much has been made of the diplomatic role the Western powers played in moving SWAPO and South Africa toward the July compromise on U.N.-supervised elections. Throughout the summer, the American press touted the now-broken agreement as a victory for Western diplomacy over Communist support of armed struggle as...
Inserted into the concert footage are a series of interviews Scorsese conducted with 'The Band at their plush retreat, and while these sequences are prone to low-key self-congratulation, the interviews are, for the most part, interesting, amusing, and somehow tied to the following number. The personalities of The...
Holocaust came at a moment of unusual stirring of old memories, fears and other passions among American Jews. It played last week just before Passover, timed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Skokie, Ill., 7,000 who survived Auschwitz, Belsen and Treblinka awaited the...