Jared Diamond, in Discover (Oct.One-Way Plagues 1992), 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, Calif. 91521.
Less than 200 years after Christopher Colum- rise of agriculture and then of cities, in both the bus set foot in the New World, the native Amer- Old World and the New, provided the "crowd ican population of some 20 million had de- diseases" with a welcome mat. The rise of farm- clined perhaps 95 percent. The main killers ing and cities also put humans in close contact were not swords...
Jared Diamond, in Discover (Oct.One-Way Plagues 1992), 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, Calif. 91521.
Less than 200 years after Christopher Colum- rise of agriculture and then of cities, in both the bus set foot in the New World, the native Amer- Old World and the New, provided the "crowd ican population of some 20 million had de- diseases" with a welcome mat. The rise of farm- clined perhaps 95 percent. The main killers ing and cities also put humans in close contact were not swords...
Anke A.
Ehrhardt of Columbia and June M. Reinisch of the Kinsey Institute, Kimura says, have found that these girls "grow up to be more tomboyish and aggressive than their unaffected sisters." Sheri A. Berenbaum of the University of Chi- cago and Melissa Hines of UCJA found that when such girls are given a choice of toys, they opt for cars and trucks, "the more typically masculine toys.'
Kimura believes that the apparent sex differ- ences "arose because they proved evolution-...
Carol Troyen, in The American Art Journal (Vol.Regained XXIII, No. 1, 1991), 40 W. 57th St., 5th fl., New York, N.Y. 10019.
In 1851, the New York-based American Art- Union held one of its most influential exhi- bitions. Three of the show's paintings were so powerful and accomplished that they became much-imitated models of a pastoral form of landscape painting, according to Troyen, an as- sociate curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. In a nation beset growing sectional and economic tensions,...
Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900) and New England Scen- ery Frederic E. Church (1826-1900)-were composite images, but were very much like Kensett's in scale, composition, and theme. The three scenes, Troyen says, had a "Jefferso- nian harmony and idyllic quality," and offered "the sense of America as the new Eden." It was a reassuring vision then, for outside the Art- Union's walls, Troyen writes, "the nation was in turmoil, scarcely recovered from the crises precipitating....
Jed Perl, in The New Republic
The Best Art
(Oct. 19, 1992), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.20036,
Is Out of Sight
Serious American artists today are in despair- though not over Senator Jesse Helms's (R.-N.C.) attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather, asserts Perl, author of Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World (1991), their desperation results from the "near total collapse" of the "support system of galleries and grants and collectors and curators and...
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"The Art Nobody Knows" Jed Perl, in The New Republic
The Best Art
(Oct. 19, 1992), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.20036,
Is Out of Sight
Serious American artists today are in despair- though not over Senator Jesse Helms's (R.-N.C.) attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather, asserts Perl, author of Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World (1991), their desperation results from the "near total collapse" of the "support system of galleries and...
the Iraqis, Iraq's the coalition. . . ," Lewis observes, "the price of oil actually fell." The power of the oil weapon is not likely to be restored, in his view. Not only are other sources of oil being found and developed, nota- bly in the former Soviet republics, but oil's environmental and political drawbacks have spurred the search for other fuels. Oil produc- ers realize that using their black gold as a weapon will only hasten the day when it will be superseded as an energy source.
Even...
America has no literary capi- cesses) every ambitious talent. tal. Its great writers have It was not ever thus. In the late 19th and come from every region and early 20th centuries, some of America's often spent their adult lives greatest writers fled their own country, in in locales hardly known as part at least to get away from what they saw cultural meccas-Oxford, as its provincialism. For the literary expatri- Mississippi, or Amherst, Massachusetts, or ates of that time-Henry James, Edith...
some years ago, I received an ar- ticle from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, entitled "Banja Luka Mon Amour." It was written on the occasion of an earthquake that destroyed much of that mixed Serb, Croat, and Muslim town on the Vrbas River in northern Bosnia. Its author, Nada Curcija-Prodanovic, was a well-known translator of Serbo-Croatian folklore into English. Her article consisted mainly of childhood reminiscences, but what I re-member most was its title. It seemed to me at the time that there...