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New Criterion articles from May 2002
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New Criterion archives from May 2002
Sun rise. (Notes & Comments: May 2002).(The New York Sun)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Among the many reasons adduced for the awfulness of The New York Times--its arrogance, its sloppiness, its almost risible political correctness--is the paper's lack of competition. With the demise of The New York Tribune in 1966, the last...
Adversary jurisprudence. (The survival of culture: IX).
May 1, 2002... The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by law.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every law or rule of conduct must, whether its author perceives the fact or not, lay down or rest upon...
G. C. Lichtenberg: a "spy on humanity".
May 1, 2002... We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.
--Goethe
Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone.... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself...
Hayek's prophetic scepticism.
May 1, 2002... "People are fully alive to the superstition in priests" Lord Salisbury once remarked. "In time they will find out that professors may be just as bad." Salisbury was a Conservative prime minister of Britain in the late nineteenth century, and...
Canso (after Rudel). (Two poems).(Poem)
May 1, 2002...
Canso (after Rudel)
My love so far away,
I'd been in prison here
for countless aching years.
You came and set me free
but left me here to roam
and long for you my love
so far away.
My love so far...
"H. C. Westermann". (Exhibition notes).
May 1, 2002... at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. February 14-May 12, 2002
About eight years ago, I had a memorable and somewhat apprehensive conversation with a close friend, a painter. At the time, his wife was expecting...
Intemperate political rhetoric. (The media).
May 1, 2002... There is, alas, nothing very remarkable about the fact that Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) should have given public voice to her suspicions that the President of the United States (R-Tex.) was complicit in the terrorist attacks on the...
Ego, vanity & megalomania. (Books).(Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence)
May 1, 2002... Every good correspondence deserves a quarrel, preferably a violent one; it takes an earthquake to trace the contours of a fault line. For fifteen years the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and the critic Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)...
Step right up.
May 1, 2002... Matthew Sweet Inventing the Victorians. St. Martin's Press, 264 pages, $23.95.
Matthew Sweet begins Inventing the Victorians with a sentence that should send a chill down your spine: "Suppose that everything we know about the Victorians is...
Tenebrous Teutons.(German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner)
May 1, 2002... John Warrack German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. Cambridge University Press, 4-59 pages, $62.95.
Italian opera before the mid-nineteenth century is a cavalcade of great names, from Monteverdi to the young Verdi. France's pre-1850...
Eyes wide open.
May 1, 2002... Arthur Schnitzler Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas. Translated by Margret Schaefer. Ivan R. Dee, 272 pages $28.50
A haze of nostalgia has blanketed fin de siecle Vienna since 1941, when The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig's elegy...