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...elaborate Neo-classic facade, the medallions of Michelangelo, Rafael, and Velasquez, show that the bourgeoisie needed very much to think that it was fulfilling the old humanist roles. They were unable to see how silly it was to build inhuman beehives at one end of the City at the same time that they were copying French palaces at the other end. Seen together, the Met and the skyscrapers show the perversely contorted development of the American city...
...taken for a Southern Senator." Fat lecture invitations are as available as women anxious to add a famous notch to their bedposts. In the three funniest adventures, Bech is sent by the State Department on a cultural-exchange junket behind the Iron Curtain. The tableaux of culturecrats in opulent neo-czarist settings undoubtedly come from Updike's memories of his own U.S.-sponsored tour of Russia in 1964. For Bech. the trip proves to be a sort of thinking man's "Mission: Impossible," in which Bech must make his way through the claustrophobic air ducts of Communist literary...
...week they had been flocking to Billy Graham's East Tennessee crusade. Each night some 55,000 gathered in the University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium for the Graham style of neo-tent meeting-compounded of smooth efficiency, earnest prayer and the preacher's intimations of apocalypse. Graham warned, as he had before, that the Second Coming was at hand: "Jesus said that there will be a generation in history whose problems are so great there is no human solution. God has to step into history...
Precocious moppets at a kindergarten assembly? Wrong. Joseph Chaikin's off-off-Broadway Open Theater. But that first impression may not be entirely mistaken. For the Open Theater plays a brilliant game of neo-innocence. It peels down actors to their childlike selves and doubles back to drama's origins: religious processionals, Dionysian revels...
...busy sculptors whose realistic bronzes seldom get a big play on the art pages, but continue to sell. The Remingtonesque cowboys of Wyoming-bred Harry Jackson are snapped up as fast as he can turn them out, at prices in four and five figures. David Aronson's neo-Gothic gargoyles, angels and prophets regularly sell out in editions of eight and twelve...