Table of Contents

Volume 8, Number 3 · February 23, 1967

Ernst Gombrich, Bosch of Hertogenbosch

Hieronymus Bosch by Charles de Tolnay

Meyer Schapiro, Dangerous Acquaintances

Friendship and Fratricide, an Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss by Meyer A. Zeligs M.D.

Elizabeth Hardwick, Hurrah!

American Hurrah by Jean-Claude van Itallie, Directed by Jacques Levy

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Directed by Peter Hall

A.J.P. Taylor, Crimes beyond Punishment

The Trial of the Germans: Nuremberg 1945-1946 by Eugene Davidson

Auschwitz: A Report on the Proceedings Against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt by Bernd Naumann, Introduction by Hannah Arendt, by Hannah Arendt

Death in Rome by Robert Katz

Irving Howe, A New Turn at Arthur's

The Bitter Heritage by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

R.C. Smail, Is It True about the Templars?

The Guilt of the Templars by G. Legman

Noam Chomsky, A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals

Frances A. Yates, Paradox and Paradise

The Race of Time by Herschel Baker

The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox by Rosalie L. Colie

Mordecai Richler, A Hero of Our Time

Paper Lion by George Plimpton

John Gerassi, A Long Way from Michigan

Overtaken by Events: The Dominican Crisis—from the Fall of Trujillo to the Civil War by John Bartlow Martin

Arnaldo Momigliano, A Silent World

Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity by Stuart Piggott


Letters

June Arnold, Teaching the Unteachable
Robert Coles, Teaching the Unteachable
Bernard Flicker, Herbert R Kohl, Teaching the Unteachable



Contributors

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.


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