The New Criterion
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December 1999 Volume 18, Number 4  

Notes & Comments

Remembering the Cold War

We told you so

Rename the Turner Prize


Features

Reflections on the end of the century
by Hilton Kramer
On how we view the crimes of Communism

Was World War I necessary?
by Keith Windschuttle
Upon the publication of The First World War by John Keegan & The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson

Thomas Hardy & American poetry
by David Yezzi

Mary Warnock: the uses & abuses of philosophy
by Jenny Teichman


Poems

In summer, nothing happens
by Robley Wilson

Prologue
by Harvey Shapiro

Dialysis
by Floyd Skloot


Letters

¿O plomo o plata?
by Alexander Coleman
Letter from Mexico


Theater

Badly awry
by Mark Steyn
On Kiss Me, Kate, James Joyce's The Dead & Noel Coward


Art

New thoughts about the Renaissance in Venice
by Karen Wilkin
On Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, Titian, at Palazzo Grassi, Venice

Exhibition notes
by Roger Kimball
On Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips, at the Phillips Collection, Washington

Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Saul Steinberg: Drawing into Being at PaceWildenstein, New York

Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On "Robert Longo" at Dorfman Projects, New York


The Media

A child's view of the world
by James Bowman
Concerning Naomi Wolf and feminism's failings


Verse Chronicle

No mercy
by William Logan


Books

Unlimited nastiness
by David Pryce-Jones
Review of The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr 1892-1982 by Jonathan Haslam

Terminal self-pity
by Brooke Allen
Review of ’Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

A humane despot
by Stuart Ferguson
Review of Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler


Notebook

At the point of extinction
by Paul Dean
Concerning secondary education in England