on his armies' evacuation of Paris
in 1944, could not have been more
desperate or more shrill than the
American President's demand of his
Oklahoman custodian of federal fu-
els policy, to know if he had yet
quashed the nation's leadership in
global climate protection, the cen-
terpiece of his vindictive erasure
of the achievements of his Black
predecessor. More than his loathe-
some dignity, more than his meas-
ured reasonableness, more than his
infuriating acceptance of reality,
every trace of his predecessor's
identification with civilization
must be more than avenged; it must
be contradicted. Is Paris next?
Alexander Calder
Four Planets
1963
Pierre Lescot
Palais du Louvre
1527
I.M. Pei
Grand Entrance
1983
