The New Criterion
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March 1998 Volume 16, Number 7  

Notes & Comments

Stanford's stairways to nowhere
On Stanford's new Presidential Lectures & Symposia in the Humanities & Arts

The decline of "Civilization"
On guest editors at the magazine of the Library of Congress

Correction
On Philippe de Montebello's position at the Met


Features

The politics of delegitimation
by Roger Kimball
The seventh in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution

Léger's modernism
by Hilton Kramer
On Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Dr. Donne & Sir Edmund Gosse
by Jeremy Bernstein
Exploring the meeting of two dissimilar men

Balanchine's castle
by Laura Jacobs
On Jewels at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center


Poems

A meaning made of trees
by David Mason

The future perfect
by Robert Shaw

Airedales
by David Slavitt

The GWB in the rain
by Mary Stewart Hammond


Theater

"Capeman crusaders"
by Mark Steyn
On The Capeman by Paul Simon & Derek Wolcott


Art

Frankenthaler at the Guggenheim
by Karen Wilkin
On After Mountains & Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Levelheaded mysticism: Arthur Dove at the Whitney
by Mario Naves


The Media

Down on Clinton
by James Bowman
On the press coverage of recent presidential scandals


Books

Prague of a hundred towers
by Eric Ormsby
Review of Prague in Black & Gold by Peter Demetz

Synthetic grit
by James Wolcott
Review of Night Train by Martin Amis

Apollonius now
by Louis Galdieri
Review of The Argonautika translated & with an introduction, commentary & glossary by Peter Green

Little Kazin & big God
by Marc Arkin
Review of God & the American Writer by Alfred Kazin


Notebook

From history to Hollywood: the voyage of "La Amistad"
by Robert L. Paquette