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...another calling. For 48 years, eleven volumes and nearly 10,000 pages, Will Durant labored with monastic devotion on a "biography of mankind" that would place 110 centuries of human thought and endeavor within easy reach for the average reader. The Story of Civilization was, he admitted, "an absurd enterprise, immodest in its very conception," but also irresistible to the compulsive teacher and self-confessed "lover of the lovers of wisdom," who died a week...
...woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving to the healthy character. Let all of us without bashfulness assert what the Greeks would find it absurd to suppress...
...THEORIES of supply-side economics are hardly the scientific laws their self-righteous proponents claim them to be. Only absurd faith can justify belief that they are more than a political ruse to subsidize the indulgence of large-corporations and the affluent with the sufferings of the needy. It's like a trick with mirrors, the political maneuverings, and the legislation, the theories and the ideology covering for a system that guarantees injustice for the larger population. This time. David Stockman got caught in the middle...
...everyone knew Sir Edwin Landseer was as dead as a shot stag-dispatched, as it were, by the bullets of postimpressionism and "significant form." Even ten years ago, the idea that a major museum might commit itself to a resurrection of his work would have seemed, if not absurd, at least improbable. Realist revivals were one thing-but Landseer? Yet here he is, in an exhibit that opened last month at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will go on to London's Tate Gallery in early 1982. And he has been restored with great care, at much expense...
...walked out of David's painting complete with a towel around his head. In these types of scenes the depth of Gance's vision is most evident. It is comic, for instance, when the clerk La Bussiere saves people from the guillotine by eating their dossiers. It is absurd in the garish and frenzied Ball of the Victims after the Terror. And behind it all are the masses, the People. Time and again, Gance says, the People are being prepared for Napoleon...