Robert Lane, in ELH (Spring 1994), Dept. of English, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. 21218.
When Kenneth Branagh's much-praised film Henry V appeared in 1989, many critics com- pared it with Laurence Olivier's 19944 movie ver- sion of the play. They said that Branagh presents 'a much darker world" and a more complex King Henry than the earlier film did. That may be so. But when Branagh's version is compared with Shakespeare's, argues Lane, an English pro- fessor at North Carolina State...
Henry as ture. Four years later, he took his portfolio to surrogate parent), the king at once acknowl- Philadelphia, then to New York, and finally to edges and disavows any role in bringing England and Scotland, before he found financial about. The Boy's innocence, with his blood, backing and an engraver to copy his works. The spills over onto the king." Birdsof America, wluch came out in four volumes
Shakespeare acutely recognized "the persis- between 1827 and 1838, consisted of 435...
contrast, "sought to gain direct knowledge of his subjects in their natural set- tings traversing woods, plains, and swamps all over the land," May notes. He rarely painted stuffed specimens but instead "drew directly from freshly killed birds in order to capture the shapes, textures, and colors as accurately as possible. He threaded birds with wire to set them in poses which were both characteristic of their daily activities, such as foraging or hunting prey, and aesthetically pleasing."
In...
Mark Lilla, in Daedalus (Spring 1994),Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
During the years between the world wars, it was hard for even the warmest advocates of Euro- pean liberalism to imagine the whole of Western Europe living under stable liberal governments anytime soon. The future belonged to commu- nism, fascism, socialism-anything but liberal- ism. Remarkably, observes Lilla, a professor of politics and French studies at New YorkUniver- sity, liberalism has triumphed.
Yet...
Mark Lilla, in Daedalus (Spring 1994),Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
During the years between the world wars, it was hard for even the warmest advocates of Euro- pean liberalism to imagine the whole of Western Europe living under stable liberal governments anytime soon. The future belonged to commu- nism, fascism, socialism-anything but liberal- ism. Remarkably, observes Lilla, a professor of politics and French studies at New YorkUniver- sity, liberalism has triumphed.
Yet...
staying in Ireland and writing out of their experience of it, they have had to [deal with] a period of radical change and unsettlement" on the island, observes O'Toole, a columnist for the Iris11 Times. Their work, as a result, has aroused international in- terest in modern Ireland.
For artists from the North, such as Brian Friel (who lives in rural Donegal) and fellow play- wright Frank McGuinness (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me), dealing with change 'lias meant facing up to the traumas of...
one- third between 1991 and '92. In a 1992 survey, three out of four Muscovites said tliey were afraid to walk tlie streets at night. Such fears have built support for extremists such as ultra- nationalist Vladimir Zliirinovsky, who has ad- vocated shooting lawbreakers on sight.
Russia's new leaders, Handelman con-tends, "have failed to adopt any significant measures to curb organized crime." As the law stands now, police may arrest people tliey catch in a criminal act, but the "mastermind"...
the Soviet Union, North Korea has good reasons to want nuclear weapons, Mack points out in this collection of essays a dozen scholars of various na- tionalities. They would serve Kim's regime as a deterrent to the threat implicit in the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" over South Korea, and also against South Korea's smaller but over-whelmingly superior conven- tional military.
North Korea today is "the most militarized, brutal, and undemocratic country in the world," observes Yale University's...
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...