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...that simple. The first tangible hint of American moral attitudes comes on the immigration form: the solemn requirement to swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in the perfectibility of man. Cotton Mather, meet Thomas Jefferson. This contradictory combination bespeaks...
...emphasize too much the critical importance of the reform movement now under way all across America. We have a / will and a determination to strengthen our schools and our colleges and to make them even better than they are, and I urge you graduates to do your utmost after you leave here to be strong advocates of American education. Run for the school board. Get involved. Help those who come after you to have the opportunity that you've had. I'd also emphasize to you graduates that you need to be committed to learning and to self-renewal...
...year. Co-Captain Brian Groukau said, "He's phenomenal. By the end of his four years he'll have made quite an impact on Harvard swimming. He's super team player, and had a lot of us looking at his starts earlier in the season. I really have the utmost confidence he'll be one of the best in the world once he adjusts to Harvard swimming...
...hence the contrast achieved in the Louvre's Death of the Virgin between the onlookers, as grave and classical as any quoted from a sarcophagus, and the dead Mary, sprawled like a real corpse. He learned to run variations on the idea of decorum; to achieve effects of the utmost stateliness and play them off against the "merely" documentary. His enemies thought this showed a taste for the banal. Today it suggests how little, in art, can be more radical than a hunger for the real...
Hernmarck's work often conveys high emotional drama. In Sailing, which she created in 1976 for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, it is the drama of grand romantic painting. A ship's sails billow to their utmost; the sailors on deck strain as fiercely as the wind itself. By contrast, her giant (20 ft. by 11 ft.) tapestries Poppies and Bluebonnets (1979) for an office building in Dallas have the lazy, midsummer-day haze of a Monet...