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...called the Senator to say he had performed "beautifully" on the FBI'S video tape. Commented Pressler: "I find it somewhat repulsive that I'm on tape, but now I'm called a hero. It's a sad state of affairs when it's heroic to turn down a potential bribery situation." The fallout from Abscam was indeed a serious matter. Along with the further erosion of public confidence...
...show belong?Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Mme. Max, for instance, or Albert Maignan's Passage of Fortune, 1895, with its gauze-veiled figure of Lady Luck bumping on her wheel down the steps of the Paris Bourse? In such respects, the show will do much to replace the "heroic" image of early modernism?the intransigents battling the Academy?with a cozier picture, in which pompier and avant-garde share the common ground of being figurative, of supplying comprehensible images to a public bored or intimidated by abstract...
Lastly, one marvels at Science for the People's heroic incomprehension of their own vulnerability when they speak of the ideological legitimization of genocidal action. Every source of prestige (including Darwin), from religion to science to social science, has been used to legitimize genocide, powerseeking, and exploitation. Applying their own standards to themselves, one would find them ideological participants in the Soviet Gulag, the Cambodian holocaust, and China's system of "re-education...
...shoot faster and more accurately. Blast them all -whew!-and another phalanx appears, nearer and more menacing. The action is jitteringly fast, and the tension is worsened by a sense of foreboding: as in life itself, there can be only one end to the struggle. At last the heroic player dies, overwhelmed. He is limp, drained, defeated, and his only satisfaction is the knowledge that he has offed a lot of aliens. Current hard-to-believe heroic high scores: by a Chicago player, 187,520, and a 257,000 claimed by a Pennsylvania college student. Midway Mfg. Co. of Illinois...
Burger's Daughter, By Nadine Gordimer (Viking, $10.95): An elevating exploration of social commitment and the demands it places on a woman whose father has no doubts about his commitments in South Africa. She obviously has her doubts, and Gordimer portrays in heroic dimensions her attempts to carve out her own moral vision against the background of her father's consuming convictions. Gordimer's sensitive observations on South Africa's racial conflicts make for wrenching reading...