Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what she quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism of the age, a wife in name only. Eventually she understood that in abstinence lay salvation, via a virtuous annulment. Where once she had wanted Ruskin to consummate the marriage, she now deliberately made herself as unpleasant to him as she could...
Tell and Tell. In choosing and fitting together the pieces of this biographical jigsaw, the author has shown rare dignity. She has submerged such feminine solidarity as she may have felt for Effie in a measured view of the manners and morals of both parties and of the age in which they lived. For all its peephole pettiness, the story stirs the mind like a psychological melodrama and flows as smoothly as any contrived 18th century novel of manners. Whoever was right, whatever their pangs and posturings, the Ruskins emerge as vivid and graceful correspondents. If no book like this...
...life, the letters make clear, Kazantzakis felt the impulse of the revolutionary. His signing of liberal manifestoes kept him in steady trouble with conservative Greek authorities. But ultimately he could accept neither the life-suppressing party discipline nor the brain-confining dogma of the principal revolutionary movement of his age. He never joined the Communist Party, and when, during World War II, he offered his services to the Greek partisans, they rejected him as unreliable. Kazantzakis derided the party's attempt to reduce life to a set of abstractions. Communists, he wrote, reminded him of Jean Jacques Rousseau...
Evil has fallen on bad days. In an age of H-bombs and death camps, its influence in the world has hardly diminished. But men's ways of thinking and talking about evil have altered. The fine old dramatic metaphors, from the Serpent in the Garden to Gustave Doré's sulfurous Lucifer, have lost their power to terrify. Yet modern substitutes are equally unsatisfying. Social scientists reduce evil to data. Intellectuals expose its banality. The public seems able to consider the demonic only in the harmless guise of Rosemary's Baby. Like nearly everything these days...
...concept of the natural supremacy of evil over good in humanity. The Judaeo-Christian tradition eases the anguish by holding out the hope of salvation through the exercise of a semblance of free will in the worldly fight with the Devil's forces. What is an increasingly secular age to do with its knowledge that evil is an inextricable part of man's nature? Face it, says Rubinoff. Bring it out into the open...