Friedrich --

The NYTimes Arts section today goes four-for-four -- all, repeat all, of the headlines on the front page of the section are self-serious protest classics:

1. "It's Gloves-Off Time for an Angry Arthur Miller"
2. "Not Just Singing, but Soul-Baring Too"
3. "Party for Zora Neale Hurston, Obscure No More"
4. "Actors in Ellis Island Show Vote, 7 to 1, to Join Union"

...I was thinking of making some comments here about the Times' vision of of what art is (apparently a civil-rights fist shaken, in the name of justice and self-expression, in the face of oppression), and about how, if that's what art really were, I'd have no big interest in it. But I'll spare you.

Best

Michael