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...this is still not a war." That comfortable illusion did not last the afternoon. Late that day and all day Tuesday, a stream of messages to the communications center aboard Air Force One and worried phone conversations between the politicking President and officials back in Washington made clear the scope and fury of the fighting. By Wednesday morning, when Carter returned bleary-eyed to the capital to preside at a hastily summoned meeting of the National Security Council, the truth was appallingly obvious: Washington had to deal with a conflict that seemed bound to hurt what Carter has called...
This exhibition, as well as focusing attention on a worthy but obscure artist, also shows that the Blaue Reiter movement included more than just Klee and Kandinsky. As a woman who persisted in her original interpretation of her time, Munter increased the scope of an artistic movement which helped define modern art, and at the same time, managed to remain involved with her subject in a way that always defied classification...
...upcoming federal regulations and new state laws will surely help, but what haunts the EPA'S Costle and other environmentalists is the scope of the problem. In 1941 the American petrochemical industry produced 1 billion Ibs. of synthetic chemicals. By 1977 that rate had soared to 350 billion...
Helen and Teacher traces the scope and course of her life, from her rambunctious childhood--she had an energy for knowledge matched by few--from her days as a heady Radcliffe student to her flirtations with socialism and her voyages and work for the blind. The Helen that emerges from Lash's portrait is a woman with "an inexhuastive capacity for enthusiasm and hope." As he does frequently throughout the book, Lash lets Helen describe herself to the reader. After she read Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Helen wrote a friend that she had found much...
Most visitors will agree, even if they find the presentation exhausting and nearly indigestible, streamed as they must be through the galleries at a speed dictated by an attendance of 8,000 people a day.* In such circumstances, no one can absorb the scope and the depth of the man. How can one "see" in two hours what took nearly 80 years of such obsessive activity to produce? The "Tut Law," or curse of the mummy, by which works of art become invisible as the museum audience for them expands, will work against this show. That is all the more...