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...Canaday was not far wrong. The best contemporary photographers generally have less respect for their subjects than for the photographs that arise from them. Few have been able to produce work of the purity and absoluteness one sees in much of the innocent, incunabular sort of photography of the mid-19th century, in the Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady and his colleagues, or in Eugene Atget's pictures of Paris streets at the turn of the century. Meyerowitz's work, which ranked on the "windows" side of the New York show, has a kind of emphatic resplendence that...
...first Jones's adoption of Marxism seems exceptional in the midwest of the '50s, the stomping grounds of Joe McCarthy. Yet the midwest, settled in the mid-19th century, at the height of Victorian optimism, has a history of utopian settlements. It was the scene of American capitalism's first unimpeded development, and seems particularly capable of inspiring a revulsion towards America: the land is flat, the culture traditional, functional, bland. T.S. Eliot felt this alienation, and the tone of "The Waste Land" owes much to his native midwest. Jones, too, must have felt it, for his church is above...
...tendency to join cults seems to come roughly in 50-year cycles in the U.S. A wave broke in the mid-19th century, then again after World War I, and now in the '70s. For several thousand years, the rule has been that cults nourish in times of great social change...
...their husbands in all things, there's a lot of stress," says Mormon Housewife Mona Daniels. The church is honoring its women with a new sculpture garden at a restored village in Nauvoo, Ill., one of the Midwestern communities where raging mobs drove out the Mormons in the mid-19th century after Prophet Smith was shot to death. Despite the gesture, the church is adamantly opposed to the ERA or other concessions. Kimball states that unlike blacks, it is "impossible" that women would ever attain priesthood...
...Evangelical movement is a quest for traditional faith and values, and so for our cover the editors decided on an American primitive painting, Christ's Sermon on the Mount, by an artist known only as Plattenberger. Painted in the mid-19th century, the picture now hangs in the family room of a Woodbury, Conn., doctor. It was placed there, says the owner, so that the children of the household could see Christ's admonishing gesture, and behave...