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...belief that art could assist social change was a central idea of the Modernist enterprise. It pervaded the revolutionary idealism of the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus designers, the Dadaists and Surrealists, even the Abstract Expressionists. It has now ended, and instead of the old faith in a heroic future, we have an institution: the Mausoleum of the Briefly...
...painting, its fluctuations mean more. When they occur, clearly something is up. What happened to architecture in the 1970s may turn out to be the largest revision of opinion about buildings-what they mean, what they do, how they should look-since the first third of our century, the "heroic years" of Modernist architecture, when its terms were shaped by such men as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier...
...offer. Nothing in this building could be called revivalist;, everything is quotation and proposition, exaggerated detail held in parentheses. Venturi seems to be expressing the same sort of relationship to the past that theorizing mannerist architects like Vasari, in the 16th century, had with Michelangelo's more heroic prototypes...
...results are mixed, with the elder Wallachs emerging most successfully. There will doubtless be some who will now find the passivity of the survival tactic Anne Frank's father imposed on his family less than heroic, but as Mr. Frank, Eli Wallach communicates the virtue of kindly patience. He makes one feel that for a gently reared bourgeois family headed by such a man, his claustrophobic choice offered the best, most reasonable hope of enduring the Holocaust. Anne Jackson brings spirited understanding to the role of a woman caught in the primal conflict between mother and adolescent daughter under...
Eventually Teng was restored to good standing and became editor of the army newspaper Red Star. In 1934, he joined Mao's legendary Long March?the heroic, 6,000-mile trek by the party's forces, under constant harassment by Chiang Kai-shek's armies?to remote Yenan, in Shensi province. Food was scarce in the mountainous caves, but Teng rose ingeniously to the occasion. According to Chou's secretary, Yang Yi-chih, Teng earned the gratitude of Mao and other party leaders because of his skills, not in the military arts, but in cooking. He was justly famous...