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...said we no longer remember how the victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping not one stride short of victory. We will put a new idealism into the conflict of national ideals, so that other peoples may know the greatness of our national spirit, and wonder as they admire at the emerging of our power...
Because she died at an age when most artists are only getting into their stride, it is not surprising to find that Hesse's main dialogue was with her contemporaries in New York: the spiky or woolly boxes of Lucas Samaras, Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures, Jasper Johns' borderline works between sculpture and painting. The remarkably intense exchange recalls, like a lost epoch, the temper of New York...
...High time," the weekly newsmagazine Le Point said of the reforms, "because everyone recognized the bankruptcy of the teaching of French in primary schools." One leading pedagogue at the Ministry of Education, Jean Repusseau, praised the changes as evidence "that we have taken a long stride forward." In comparison with the informality of most U.S. elementary schools, however, it might be said that France is only belatedly catching...
...build on one another to be successful, until one caps the sequence, but Avanti! lacks the pacing needed to make a scene more than a succession of little jokes. Only near the end, when Edward Andrew enters as J.J. Blodgett of the State Department, does the film hit its stride...
...ones made by 19th century aliens. Seasick, verminous, unable to hold their meager rations, the passengers think themselves in hell without the intervening grace of death. When the survivors reach harbor their true journey begins. Aboard a riverboat, they become aware of the flaws in the fable. Rich folk stride upon the top deck; down below are the new arrivals. Below them are Negro slaves, chained to each other and to a corrupted ideal...