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...Government began to investigate security risks. Would my own career be threatened by having read the Communist Manifesto in Gov. 1? F.O. Matthiessen, an icon to those of us concentrating in American history and lit, spoke on behalf of Henry A. Wallace, the accommodationist third-party candidate at the Progressive Party Convention in 1948. Wallace had attracted many supporters at Harvard. In early 1950, widely attacked in the press, Matthiessen jumped to his death from a hotel window...
...relatives--including an ex-wife and a granddaughter who have said they heard him boast about the bombing--have reportedly come forward. Willajean Brogdon, one of Cherry's five wives, told the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger, "Bob told me he didn't put the bomb together. He said, 'I lit...
Investigators said that last Tuesday morning, at 3:18 a.m., a lit newspaper in the castle set off fire alarms. Moments later, a Lampoon member called 911 and told an operator that firefighters didn't need to respond--the fire had been extinguished...
...galleries will make the artists happy. They are plain, well-lit boxes, with floors of unsanded white oak or polished concrete. There's not a remarkable thing about them, which means it will be easier for the unusual artistic conjunctions the Tate has conjured to jump forward. The art, all post-1900, is organized by subject rather than chronology. There will be nudes and still-life, landscape and history paintings. Thus Richard Long's work Red Slate Circle (1988) is exhibited below Monet's Water-Lilies (after 1916). Pieces by two artists, working at different ends of the century with...
...NATO aircraft lit the sky over Yugoslavia at the start of Operation Allied Force last year, NATO's political leaders were stating that "NATO is not at war with Yugoslavia." Tell that to the pilots who flew night and day against the missiles and antiaircraft fire over Serbia and who saw the effects of the ethnic cleansing on the ground...