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Article: The misanthrope's corner.(public art; humor)(Column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 11, 1997
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Miss King is the author of The Florence King Reader and other books.
IN AN effort to prove that Americans have an innate reverence for the arts, Hillary Clinton recently told the story of Dolley Madison's priorities on the night the British burned the White House in 1814. Did the fashionable Dolley think to save her wardrobe, including all those Empire turbans? No, indeed. She saved Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington.
Therefore, implied Mrs. Clinton, the National Endowment for the Arts is, and of right ought to be, first in the hearts of her countrypersons.
Never mind the logic. I'm tired of uncoiling the serpentine corkscrews of the ...