The New Criterion
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May 1999 Volume 17, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

More and more of everything
On the so-called culture boom

The one unforgivable sin
On Elia Kazan's Academy Award for lifetime achievement

Partly infuriating, partly pathetic
On Philosophy and Literature's annual Bad Writing Contest


Features

Procedure or dogma: the core of liberalism
by John Silber
The ninth in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism

The permanent Auden
by Roger Kimball
A reconsideration of W. H. Auden occasioned by Edward Mendelson's Later Auden

How did Dostoevsky know?
by Gary Saul Morson
On totalitarianism, evil & intellectuals

Alexander Hamilton: precocious and preeminent
by Lewis Lehrman
On Alexander Hamilton, American, by Richard Brookhiser


Poems

On a cliff above Seal Rocks
by David Yezzi

Invention with seascape
by David Yezzi

What to do with a mountain lake
by David Yezzi


Letters

Nostalgia for bad times
by Eric Ormsby
On how the Czech Republic views its past


Theater

What the Brits are swearing
by Mark Steyn
Reviews of Closer & other British imports


Art

Disaster relief
by Karen Wilkin
Floodsongs, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

A Spring roundup
by Mario Naves
Reviews of Ronald Bladen: Selected Works at P.S. 1, New York, Willard Boepple: The Sense of Things at the New York Studio School, Anne Peretz at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries & Stephen Westfall at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.


Music

At last, the promised land?
by Alexander Coleman
Review of Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Concert note
by Lawrence Johnson
On Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg, at the Chicago Sympohony Orchestra


The Media

Caring, compassionate imperialism
by James Bowman
On the rhetoric of the war in Kosovo


Books

Berryman at Shakespeare
by William Logan
Berryman's Shakespeare by John Berryman

A family album
by Brooke Allen
Review of Another World by Pat Barker

Choosing coarseness
by Donald Lyons
Aristophanes, Volume I: Acharnians, Knights & Volume II: Clouds, Wasps, Peace, edited & translated by Jeffrey Henderson