The enduring fascination with
Frank Lloyd Wright~evinced most
recently by this year's retrospective at the
Museum of Modern Art-is a
tribute to an architectural
genius whose distinctive style
'spoke, and still speaks,
to most Americans."
Last summer, hav-
ing accepted a position at the University of
Pennsylvania, I came to Philadelphia to look
for a house. Going through the pages of a real
estate agent's directory, I chanced upon a post-
age stamp-size photograph of a...
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BY NELSON W. ALDRICH,JR.
Egon Scliiele's 1914 Man and Woman (Liebespar)
Wmt strikes some as an absurd tempest in a teapot is to others a crucial battle in the gender wars. Neither side gets the larger point of the date-rape controversy, says Nelson Aldrich.
ate rape, whirlpooling, lcziltw-rape in Bosnia, the Spur Posse in South-ern California, the Manassas penis cutter-sexual horror stories
shuddered through the media last year, each paroxysm more horrible than the last.
The eroti...
Thirty years after his death, C. S. Lewis remains a Celebrity Author: the complacent professor who churned out zui~zsome childrens fiction and quotable religious apologetics. That image, confirmed by the recent celluloid treatment, Shadowlands, trivializes the weight and worth of Lewis's achievement, as zuell as the struggle behind it.
t was the practice of Clive Staples Lewis, everything he read. Of course, this declaration wlule at Magdalen College, Oxford, dur- would be met with incredulityand...
o these many years later, the question has lost none of its power to stun: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? We never expected Barbara Walters to give Socrates a run for his money, but this? In retrospect, the question probably signaled a defining moment in the devolution of the TV interview. And yet its empty-head- edness is rather appealing today, when we routinely expect our interviewers to follow the baton right to the knee, the knife to its target flesh. The cocktail of c...
March 31,1994.
Something, it seemed, had gone very wrong with this exercise in humanitarian interven- tion-but what was it? Some analysts, such as John R. Bolton, writing in Foreign Affairs (Jan.-Feb. 1994), contend that Clinton erred in expand- ing the original, limited mission. Others, such as David Frornkin, writing in the New York Times Magazine (Feb. 27,1994), argue that Bush failed to face "the question of what would happen when the troops were withdrawn: would not the warlords go back...
William G. Tliiemann, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1994), 208 E. 75th St., New York, N.Y.10021.
Herbert Hoover is usually remembered as the hapless victim of the Great Depression and, in the 1932 election, of the ebullient Franklin D. Roosevelt. History is always more complicated than such simple imagery suggests, and now Thie-maim, a graduate student inhistory at Miami Uiu- versity, Ohio, adds an interesting detail to the Hoover-FDR tableau. It seems that the Republi- can president...
William G. Tliiemann, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1994), 208 E. 75th St., New York, N.Y.10021.
Herbert Hoover is usually remembered as the hapless victim of the Great Depression and, in the 1932 election, of the ebullient Franklin D. Roosevelt. History is always more complicated than such simple imagery suggests, and now Thie-maim, a graduate student inhistory at Miami Uiu- versity, Ohio, adds an interesting detail to the Hoover-FDR tableau. It seems that the Republi- can president...
political scientists Edward
G.Carmines and James A. Stimson. After a close look at American National Election Studies for 1980 and 1988, Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University, sees other causes.
Abramowitz agrees that the 1964 presiden- tial election was a watershed, as Carmines and Stimson argue. President Lyndon B. Johnson, champion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, trounced conservative Republican Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who had opposed it. Democratic leaders and activists then...
a powerful common enemy, is a potential threat. It would be the strongest mili- tary power in Asia, and the second-ranking one in tlie world." Tlie fact tliat Japan is democratic is no guarantee of peace. Indeed, some observ- ers doubt tliat Japan really is or will remain a de- mocracy in Western terms.
Betts (who leans toward the realist perspec-
tive) believes tliat Cliina is "tlie state most
likely over time to disturb equilibrium in the
region-and the world." Even conservative
estimates,...
the Bush administration-"is just plain unaffordable." With 10 active army and three marine divisions, 12 aircraft carriers, and 13 active air force wings, the force looks form- dable. But its size will come at the cost of defer- ring replacement of helicopters, tanks, and other equipment; after 10 to 15 years, "a massive junking of obsolescent gear" would be necessary.
As if all tlus were not enough, Cohen discerns "a deeper malady" in American strategy: It fails to...