The New Criterion
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December 1986 Volume 5, Number 4  

Features

“The Story of English” on PBS
by Bruce Bawer

The fall of the idols
by David Gress
On the cultural life of postwar France.

Remembering Mischa Elman
by Dana Mack

The poetry of Robert Bly
by Robert Richman


Poems

Gas
by Sidney Wade

A face
by Elizabeth Spires

Another boring story
by Louis Simpson


Music

The Berlin Philharmonic without Karajan
by Samuel Lipman


Architecture

“I am a whore”: Philip Johnson at eighty
by Diana Ketchum


Art

At the beginning of the season
by Jed Perl
On Rainer Fetting & others.


Dance

Naughty but nice
by Eva Resnikova
On Michael Clark & Company.


Books

Wishing for a Wellsian world
by Terry Teachout
A review of H. G. Wells: Deperately Mortal by David C. Smith.

The other brothers
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Biography of Broken Fortunes: Wilkie & Bob, Brothers of William, Henry & Alice James by Jane Maher.

Academic selves
by Roger Kimball
A review of Reconstructing Individualism edited by Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, David E. Wellbery, et al.


Letters

Harry Houdini

Clara Schumann’s pupils