Tom Bethell and "The Case for Shakespeare" Iwin Matus, in The Atlantic (Oct. 1991), 745 The Thing Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 021 16.
No .fewer 'than 58 individuals have been proposed at one time or another as the true author of the works attributed to Wil- liam Shakespeare (1 564-1 6 16) of Strat- ford. The anti-Stratfordians' current favor- ite is Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the 17th Earl of Oxford, a courtier who was a scholar, athlete, and poet. Journalist Tom Bethel1 contends the...
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The Play's "The Case for Oxford" Tom Bethell and "The Case for Shakespeare" by Iwin Matus, in The Atlantic (Oct. 1991), 745 The Thing Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 021 16.
No .fewer 'than 58 individuals have been proposed at one time or another as the true author of the works attributed to Wil- liam Shakespeare (1 564-1 6 16) of Strat- ford. The anti-Stratfordians' current favor- ite is Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the 17th Earl of Oxford, a courtier who was a scholar,...
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have found another way to protest: rock music with anti-establishment lyrics. Teen- age rock idol Cui Jian's latest album, "Jiejuey (Resolve), for example, begins with -these lines: "There are many prob- lems before us;/Therels no way to resolve them./But the fact that we have never had the chance/Is an even greater problem."
Its enthusiasm for defiant rock lyrics, Hooper says, is but one manifestation of the fact that the current generation of Chi- nese youth is openly...
Paul Johnson, in National Review (June 10,
1991), 150 East 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.
Percy Bysshe Shelley in 182 1 called poets "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827) had already staked out a similar claim on behalf of a genuinely lowly group: musicians. In fact, it was Beetho- ven, according to journalist-historian Johnson, who "first established and popu- larized the notion of the artist as universal genius, as a moral figure...
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About This Mona Lisa
Fed up with "the red rant of unearned praise," novelist Stanley Elkin fires away in Art & Antiques (Summer 1991) at some "overrated masterpieces," from Hamlet to Citizen Kane. But when he comes to Leo- nardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the curmud- geonly critic almost succumbs to her fam-ously mysterious smile.
See her there in her cat-who-ate-the-canaries, her smug repose and babushka of hair like a her odd, asexual face, in where the myster...
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Colley and E. Hedges, Scottish troops of the 78th Highland Regi- ment, led officers in kilts and tam-o'shanters, advance in rows, fir- ing on the retreating French. One Highlander, meanwhile, rushes to assist the wounded Peirson, who braces himself against a building near where his troops entered the square. In placing him at the edge of the scene, Saunders notes, the artists "chose reportage over drama."
Copley, by contrast (and despite at least one battlefield accoun...
he might have rec- ognized a Salinas presidency in exchange for more favorable treatment of his coali- tion in the Senate and at the state and local levels." The next year, he founded a new party, whose very name-the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)-under- scored his challenge. "The PRD's call for a revolutionary change in the way Mexico is governed," Reding observes, "has, in ef- fect, transformed every election in which it participates into a referendum on authoritarian...
those in Russia and the West who are eager to justify the Kremlin's new authoritarianism as a necessary evil," Starr says, there is "ample evidence that Rus-
sians, freed from fear, possess as much ini- tiative and capacity for independent action as do members of other developed soci- eties in Europe, Asia, and the Americas." The West, he says, should accept "at face value" the democratic movement in the Soviet Union, not "belittle it simply be- cause it has not, in...
BrentRights From Tarter, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (JulyThe Start 1991), Virginia Historical Society, P.O. BOX 7311, Richmond,
Va. 23221-031 1.
Two centuries ago, on Dec. 15, 1791, Vir- ginia became the 1 lth and final state to ratify the Bill of Rights. Today, Virginia's George Mason (1725-92), the principal au- thor of the state's famous Declaration of Rights and its Constitution of 1776, is hailed as one of the fathers of the Bill of Rights. As a delegate to the Constitutional...
Con- gress to the State Legislatures. . .but of important & substantial Amendments, I have not the least Hope." This father of the Bill of Rights went to his grave three years later without ever having given the Con- stitution his blessing.
"Voter Turnout" Raymond E.Wolfinger and "Electoral Par-
Voting Booth Blues ticipation: Summing UP a Decade" bv Carole Jean Uhlaner in society (July-Aug. 1961), ~ut~ers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
When Americans...