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PRIMARY TULIPSrnJoe Anna Arnett, Oil on lii 26″X 22″rnHere is an artist fully engaged in not onl’ the vibrant energy of nature’srnteleological striving for ripeness but also in the creative impulsernof man’s conscious purpose as he reshapes nature into objectsrnfor his use and pleasure. Aesthetic values and virtuosity ofrntechnique can be appreciated on their own,...

PRIMARY TULIPSrnJoe Anna Arnett, Oil on linen, 26″ x 22″rnD,rnO Urn«rn1rn.^^mmiuBmsiWrn^ ^rn.fit • ^ ^rnBEACHCOMBERrnAnthony Frudakis, Bronze, 21″rnBALD HEAD, MAINErnFrank Mason, Oil on canvas, 48″ x 60″rnUNIONrnFrederick E. Hart, Bron/e, 20″rnMARCH 1993/19rnrnrn Add to Favorites

The Danger of PICS—PoliticallyrnIncorrect Cartoonsrnby Mary Elizabeth Podles and Leon J. PodlesrnVrnIrnStereotypes to the right of them, stereotypes to the left ofrnthem, the pohtically correct volley and thunder at everyrnimage that might offend the sensitive soul of the approvedrnvictim. Dartmouth’s comic Indian mascot turned into anrnunsmiling noble savage, then was abolished altogether. Firstrnthe Frito Bandito’s...

German Expressionists {Bambi is an expressionist novel)rnplumbed the depths of sadness and suffering in both the animalrnand human wodd. “All being is suffering” is the mottornborne bv Franz Marc’s painting of the death of animals. Whatrnstrong heart among us remains unmoved by the death ofrnBambi’s mother?rnSadness, too, is a strong element in the fairy tale,...

affection for the now departed Avenant (she never admitted itrnto him), La Belle is a little disturbed by the Prinee’s resemblancernto Avenant—actually, by this time she preferred him asrnLa Bete (and so do we).rnDisney’s ending is less ambivalent, attempting somethingrnthat suggests the people at Disney have studied literary criticism.rnJ. R. R. Tolkien in “On Fairy-Stories”...

they work mass violence and destruction.rnEven in the abstract sequence at the beginning, in whichrnBach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (by coincidence derrnFilhrer means the fugue theme) play, images of mass movementsrnthat threaten and overwhelm take shape as visual equivalentsrnto the music. These movements continue in the Dinosaurrnsequence set to Le sacre du printemps,...

ly promoted by the Germans as an illustration of the advantagesrnand benefits of a happy collaboration between the occupiedrnand the “civilized” occupying army. Suddenly thernplayfulness turns deadly earnest. Here, then, is the danger ofrncaricature: like any art, it can be put to evil use. Politicalrnphilosophers, from Plato onwards, have assumed a simple correspondencernbetween viewing art...

• Superabundant doaunentation: 5,500 endnotesrnPLUS 22 valuable charts, tables and listsrn• Double Subject and Author Indexes in eachrnvolume for easier reference • 1,149rn• Subheads throughout, with each subsectionrnfeaujring a summary • 72 photos, figures andrniUusUationsrnBreakthrough critique of evolution,rnhailed as “a masterpiece”*rnWhat makes W. R. Bird’s study of evolution and creation the most thorough — and...

regarding Garrett’s critieism, in fact, isrnthat it too often gives the impressionrnthat the author has never met a book—rna novel especially—he didn’t like.rnWhere Professor Garrett (in my opinion)rnerrs, he is led astray chiefly by mellowrnover-generosity: George Garrett emphaticallyrnis not the John Simon ofrncontemporary literary critics. Thernphrase “one of our very best writers”rncomes too trippingly at...

Doing Well; Done Betterrnby Llewellyn H. Roekwell, Jr.rn’These monstrous views,. . . these veneinous teachings.”rn—Pope Leo XIII on socialismrnDoing Well and Doing Good: ThernChallenge to the Christian Capitalistrnby Richard ]ohn NeuhausrnNew York: Doubleday;rn312 pp., $22.00rnAccording to the jacket copy of DoingrnW’eUand Doing Good, RichardrnJohn Neuhaus is “one of the mostrnprominent religious intellectuals” of ourrntime (which...

winning Bearing the Cross and TaylorrnBranch’s Parting the Waters. (The expertrnon King’s plagiarism is, of course,rnI’heodore Pappas of Chronieles.)rnAs to the “Puritan-Lockean Synthesis.”rnKing’s dream (when it wasn’t ofrnother men’s wives or of socialism) wasrnof cash. At the welfare rally in Washington,rnD. C , where he gave his famousrnspeech, King said that America had “givenrnthe Negro...

tary and secondary levels to children ofrnillegal aliens. These two Supreme Courtrndecisions have reinforced the drive torninstitutionalize bilingualism in Americanrneducation.rnFrom the outset, ambiguity surroundedrnthe purpose and definition ofrnbilingualism. At first, the public was ledrnto believe that the emphasis was on thernefficient transition in the short term tornproficiency in English, However, proponentsrnof bilingual education (includingrnthe National...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Miamirnby Alan R. TurinrnThe Unreported Story ofrnHurricane AndrewrnOn August 24, 1992, shortly after 3 A.M..rnHurricane Andrew hit the eoast atrnMiami, in South Dade County, Florida.rnA “Category Four” hurricane on thernSaper-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Andrewrnstruck with 145 ni.p.h. winds,rnmaking it the worst hurricane to hit Miamirnsince 1926. In fact, this was thernworst hurricane to hit...

were as a volunteer attorney. The AmericanrnBar Association is contracted to providernfree legal advice to victims of disasters,rnand when the call for assistancernwent out locally, four hundred of us responded.rnI spent days under tents setrnup by the U. S. Army giving pro bono legalrnhelp. Most of my work involvedrnlandlord-tenant law; half of my clientsrnwere landlords...

requiring a large cut in its unproductiverncivil service or massive devaluation,rnwhile the banana islands will be in deeprntrouble when the European Communityrndeclines their (presently subsidized) fruitrnfor cheaper and better substitutes outrnof Costa Rica. I have flown over thernlarge Costa Rican banana plantationsrnand watched the spraying of the crop;rnthere can be no question as to whose...

in the head with Andrews’ .38. He thusrnmade an individual deeision to acceleraternthe murder objective mutuallyrnagreed upon with Andrews. While twornof the victims were saved, examinationsrnlater confirmed that all of them wouldrnhave died from poisoning had the’ beenrnleft unattended.rnBoth Andrews and Selby were black.rnAccordingly, the all-white jury at thern1974 “Hi-Fi Murder” trial became anrnissue, as...

the voung man’s attempted robbery to arnlegislator who serves on the commission,rnI was told, “If he [Manzanares] was anrnAnglo, the poliee wouldn’t have pulledrntheir guns so quickly.” The HumanrnRights Commission is obviously too busyrnauditing racial attitudes to take noticernof the human rights abuses wrought byrnthieves and murderers.rnWilliam Grigg is a columnist for thernDaily I lerald...

enlightenment. The flag’s partisans,rnmeanwhile, rehise to accept their adversaries’rndefinition of what it is they arerndefending. And, God knows, everybodyrnis earnest.rnCan we sort this out? Is there anythingrnhelpful to be said, or must this allrnjust come down to a political contest ofrnwills?rnFirst of all, let’s stipulate that it’s nobody’srnbusiness but Georgians’ whatrngoes on their flag. USA...

Letter FromrnPennsylvaniarnby fames J. NovakrnThe Pilgrims’ ProgressrnIf there is one constant at yard sales, estaternauctions, and second-hand bookstoresrnin this state, it is the presence ofrnold books, Bibles, classics, and diverserntexts that once made splashes beforernsinking into obscurity. Perhaps the mostrnfrequenth seen volume, after the Bible,rnis John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, arnbook that, again, was second only...

in all creation. The cleanliness of thernbarns and stalls, the grooming of thernprize pigs, goats, and sheep is so meticulousrnthat you know that only in Americarnare there such exhibits, such severelyrnclean livestock and housing. Havingrnseen similar exhibits in Germany, Holland,rnand Ireland, I can attest that America’srnlivestock facilities are the best.rnMy first experience with fairs was...

VITAL SIGNSrnF I L Mrn’jH^vfrnBiggiesrnby David R. SlavittrnBram Stoker’s DracularnProduced by Francis Ford Coppola.rnFred Fuchs, and Charles MulvehillrnWritten by James V. HartrnDirected by Francis Ford CoppolarnDistributed by Columbia PicturesrnA Few Good MenrnProduced by David Brown, Rob Reiner,rnand Andrew ScheinmanrnWritten by Aaron SorkinrnDirected by Rob ReinerrnDistributed by Columbia PicturesrnTlicrc are advantages to doing thesernmoic pieees at...

tion are not unrelated phenomena. Hernshows us a microscopic view of redrnblood cells—perfectly normal red cells,rnmy hematologist wife assures me—andrnwe are worried in a way that would haverndelighted Stoker and that he would certainlyrnhave exploited. What Coppola isrnfaithful to is not the text of the novelrnbut its subtext. We become sophisticatedrnand are proud of ourselves...

A R Trn* * * *rnVVHk«Si^i^_dh4l^’^’^dPVL«rf4M’^rnDollars andrnAestheticsrnbv Timothy TaubesrnSubstance in the art world is all arnmatter of illusion and facade. In thernmaxim of La Rochefoucauld, “To establishrnoneself in the wodd one does all onerncan to seem established there already.”rnThis illusion goes far beyond spendingrnmoney on fancy advertising and lavishrnexhibitions to creating the appearancernof popularity and...

saw no reason to stop the escalation.rnThey steadily raised estimates on paintings,rnplaced high reserves on paintingsrnbelow which they were not allowed tornsell, and started the bidding at high levels.rnThey created an inflated atmospherernin which auctions would containrndozens of paintings estimated at over arnmillion dollars. There simply was notrnenough money to buy them all. Paintingsrnwere priced...

Priest—sexist and paternal. The Angelsrnroll out a stove for the audience’s adoration,rnalong with some saeramcntal Ricea-rnRoni (the Saint Francisco treat). Dorisrnthe grandmother bids last and wins.rnOverwhelmed with The Spirit, she canrnbarely mount the stage and gets lost approachingrnthe host. Alas, Doris loses atrn”Squeeze Play” and the general moralernplummets, but cameras pan the crowd,rn”Applause” signs flash,...

circumstances had not permittedrnher to scream. As Tommy Oddsrnsaid, he was just a lonely one-armrnNigger down on his luck that nobodyrnhad time for anymore. Butrnshe would have time—wouldn’trnshe? Because she was not likernthose rough black women who refusedrnto be sympathetic and sleeprnwith him—was she? She wouldrnbe kind and not like those womenrnwho turned him down...

port. I got in first and was surprised tornsee him climb in after me. The youngrnman settled in with the detachment ofrnyouths who want you to know thatrnthey’re there but that they’re, like, notrnreally there. Like, they transcend limos.rnHe wasn’t as sullen as Matt Dillonrndoing his awful James Dean impression,rnhowever. Despite the black-leather,rnstreet-hood look, this...

are no data that come anywhere nearrnKinsey. And Kinsev’s survey was fatallyrnflawed. He used an enormous numberrnof conviets, many of them sex offenders.rnHe used hundreds of male prostrni t u t e s . He prowled the gav bars inrnseareh of people with the most bizarrernstories. If you don’t believe me, you canrncheck the biography...

THE YEAR IN REVIEWrnW”- rn^ ^ mz^rni^rnM * . trn•ArnThe Coming Wrath—January 1992—Samuel Francisrnon James Burnham and the managerial revolution,rnAndrei Navrozov on democracy and dictatorship,rnTomislav Sunic on the future of nationalism, andrnHarold O.J. Brown on the prophecies of PitirimrnSorokin. Plus Chilton Williamson, Jr. on DeeprnEcology, William Grigg on the case against thernBoy Scouts, and Anne...

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EDITORrnThomas FlemingrniMANAGING EDITORrnI’heodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnChristine HaynesrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnJohnW.Aldndge,UaroldO.].rnBrown, Katherine Dalton, SamuelrnFrancis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnJanet Scott Barlow, JohnrnShelton ReedrnEDITORIAL SECREIARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPLIBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCOMPOSITION MANAGERrnAnita FedorarnCIRCLILATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street. Rockford, IL 61101rnEditorial Phone: (815) 964-5054.rnAdvertising...

Cincinnatus, and George Washington—rnin their decline nations arc ruled by hypocritesrnlike Pericles, Sulla, and FranklinrnRooscN’elt. But in the last phase, whenrnempire is an acknowledged fact, the divinernruler is revered for his unbridledrnpotency. Alexander, so the story went,rnburnt Pcrsepolis to please his whore;rnJulius Caesar was “every woman’s husbandrnand every man’s wife.” But thisrnmuch can be said...

be taken over by the salaried vampiresrnwho aKvays try to take things over. Butrnmaybe, just maybe, the murmurs wernheard throughout Middle America onrnEleetion Day were the rumbling auguriesrnof an empire-toppling earthquake.rn—Bill KauffmanrnETHNIC GROUPS were reportedlyrnhighly successful in registering new votersrnin the months before the 1992 nationalrnelection. In California, the Secretaryrnof State’s office was deluged withrnrequests...

nicnt (not just Israel) receiving a guarantee.rnI’he percentage that is scored is normallyrnset by an interagency committeernchaired by the Office of Managementrnand Budget and could be as low as 2 orrnas high as 12 percent of the total loanrnamount. Pennv-pinching OMB DirectorrnRichard Darman sought a “score” of 8 torn9 percent. His more politically sensitivernsuperiors in...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnThe Survival IssuernLong ago in March 1989, in the first columnrnI wrote for this space, I noted thatrnPresident George Bush shared with onlyonernother American chief executivern(namely, Martin Van Buren) the distinctionrnof having been elected to thernWhite House from the office of thernVice-President. I also commented thatrn”the lackluster record of Andrew Jackson’srnsuccessor...

sometimes brazenly, as the post-Reaganrnright embraced the civil rights movement,rnsupplv-side economics, the “imperialrnpresidency,” a “progressive conservative”rndefense of the welfare state,rncertain forms of judicial activism thatrnsuited the Reaganites’ immediate partisanrnand ideological agendas, and otherrnextensions of the American megastaternconstructed by the left in this century.rn”Cultural traditionalism,” of course, remainsrna catchword of the right today,rnthough conservatix’c airheads have...

‘ival but about which groups will prevailrnand subdue other groups. For mostrnof American history since the Civil War,rnAmerican political conflicts have notrnbeen about survival but about preeminence,rnabout which group—parties, ideologies,rnfactions, regions, coalitions—rnbecome preeminent. That has also beenrntrue of the conservative-liberal conflictrnsince World War II, because the conflictrnwas largely over which direction thernAmerican megastate would lurch...

THE YEAR IN REVIEWrn&^’ ^^^rnv«? <^^rnmrnr.rrnThe Coming Wrath—January l992^Samuel Francisrnon James Burnham and the managerial revolution,rnAndrei Navrozov on democracy and dictatorship,rnToinislav Sunic on the future of nationalism, andrnHarold O.J. Brown on the prophecies of PitirinirnSorokin. Plus Chilton Williamson, Jr. on DeeprnEcology, William Grigg on the case against thernBoy Scouts, and Anne Marie Morgan on thernbureaucracy...

PERSPECTIVErnA League of Our Ownrnby Thomas FlemingrnNineteen ninety-two was an opportunity for Americansrnto reflect on botfi their past and their future. In lessrnthan a month, we celebrated the birthday of Columbus andrnthe transfer of power from the New Deal to the Big Chill,rnfrom the civics-class pieties of George Bush to the Penthousernimproprieties of Bill Clinton.rnI...

Christian Democrats (DC) received.rnA liigh-ranking official of the Lega asked me what I thoughtrnof the government’s postponement of elections, and when Irncalled it “un piccolo colpo di stato,” he smiled and expressed hisrnagreement. The elections were rescheduled for Decemberrn(the day after the election an Italian friend called to say “LarnLega ha stravinto”—it won hands down)....

the master and who the servant in this alliance? There havernbeen persistent rumors that Salvo Lima, the DCs power-brokerrnin Sicily and longtime friend of former party secretaryrnGiulio Andreotti, was connected with the Cosa Nostra leaderrn”Ibto” Riina. Despite Andrcotti’s frequent denials, Lima hasrnbeen named more than once by Mafia pentiti (informers) asrntheir ambassador to the DC.rnSeveral...

he described Lombard provincialism as the locomotive of thernautonomist train.rnManara regards himself as the very opposite of an ideologue.rnAs a scientist, he is interested in the self-evident principlesrnof human nature as they are revealed in history and experience.rnFederalism, he insisted, because it is rooted inrnhuman nature, is a theory for human survival. We talked ofrnthe...

American economic power to break the Empire’s will.rnWhen, therefore, Mr. Gorbachev announced his troop withdrawals,rnit was apparent that the turn had come. Not onlyrnhad the Russians no more stomach for that fight, they hadrnlost the support of their long-suffering population. The North-rnWest frontier of what is now Pakistan had been an outpost ofrnthe British Empire...

nancial practice whose real names are bribery and corruption.rnHere in Massachusetts wc have a vivid svmbol of domesticrnimperiahsm in the spectacle of the Kennedys, a new-rich familyrnthat, having bought itself influence in the first period ofrngovernment expansion under Roosevelt, has gone on to buy itselfrnvotes by distributing largess in the form of welfare servicesrnand defense...

stvle or substance, temperament or tenor, they are far fromrnAmerican political conservatism and light-miles away fromrn”neocons” and the American “new right.” “I do not see anyrnconvergence between the American ‘new right’ and the FrenchrnNew Right,” says Benoist. “The American Right is a fundamentalistrncontraction and a reactionary movement tied to thernfundamental Bible. It stands for the...

appraise otherness and also how to accept the innate differencesrnof all human beings. Only then will Europe bernequipped to weather the storm of egalitarian and universalistrntemptations. Egalitarianism and uni’ersalism are the worstrnforms of inclusive racism, destroying cultural and ethnic identities,rnwhether in the name of Manifest Destiny or of thernCommunist Manifesto.rnIt is no surprise that the...

Paris office in 1987. In a move to reduce the intellectual contentrnof the Radios, management declared that it had to cutrnback the staff in Paris in order to save monc- and followedrnthe principle “last hired, first fired.” The issues in the book,rnfrom that devious move to all the other problems of recentrnears, arc verv much...

“class” would support the substitution of “news and information”rnfor “ideas and information.” This is something thcvrncan more readily quantify and thus understand. It does not involvernquality, something which they find difficult to discuss; itrnis easier to manage a flow of information than a flow of ideas.rnEven the Soviet leadership understood this more than a quarterrnof...

ment and Government in Twentieth-Century America, publishedrnby Holmes & Meier for the Oakland-based hidependentrnhistitute, the postwar resumption of the Great Depressionrnnever came. Unemployment, widely projected to reach doublerndigits, only reached an annual rate of 3.9 percent in 1946,rnlower than the long-run average rate of unemployment inrnAmerican economic history, before or since.rnAmerica went, virtually overnight, from...

real cost of labor per unit of output, thus pricing workers out of such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 1990 Cleanrnwork. Air Act, and recent civil rights legislation all hae provisionsrnThe recent stagnation in American labor markets is largely that will probably lower the productivity of labor, raising realrnattributable to rising labor costs...