Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.

Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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While running the Vincent Astor Foundation, Brooke Astor established in 1991 an organization that provided furnishings to formerly homeless families, inspired by visits to two such families in Queens whose apartments were bare. “How can you build a new life if you don’t have any furniture?” Astor asked. “To move into a place and just sit there with a bag and not even have a teacup is terrible.”
Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCLapham’s
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Olivier Zunz
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. More