The New Criterion
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April 1984 Volume 2, Number 8  

Features

Professor Howe’s prescriptions
by Hilton Kramer
On Excellence: Theory & Practice in the Humanities, a speech by Irving Howe at the New York Public Library.

The emergence of MoCA: a new museum for Los Angeles
by Christopher Knight

Growing up with old records
by Samuel Lipman

“The battle it was born to lose”: the poetry of Geoffrey Hill
by Robert Richman

Paula Modersohn-Becker: artist into icon
by Dan Hofstadter

Walter Pater and Bernard Berenson
by Paul Barolsky


Poems

The granite state: contradiction and resolution
by Donald Hall

Acorns
by Donald Hall

Floating light in Tokyo
by Brad Leithauser

Certain vers librists
by Donald Petersen

Clearing the shelf
by Donald Petersen


Art

Turning back the clock: art and politics in 1984
by Hilton Kramer


Theater

Broadway goes to school
by Mimi Kramer
On Shirley Lauro’s Open Admissions.


Books

A toga for Washington
by Fred Baumann
A review of Cincinnatus: George Washington & the Enlightenment by Garry Wills.

Acts of reverence
by Bruce Bawer
A review of The Collected Prose of Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux.