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Like an inverted pyramid, all pacifist literature rests upon a single point: as W. H. Auden put it, "We must love one another or die." In How I Won the War, Director Richard Lestersharpens the point pictorially but blunts it philosophically by focusing on a platoon of World War II tommies hellbent on a suicide mission-building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa...
...university) is not immediately useful to established power it tends to withdraw, and place itself between itself and the anxieties and responsibilities of the world, what Auden in one of his poems referred to as "lecturing on Navigation while the ship is going down." The university can accommodate itself to national power in one of two ways--overtly or covertly, through subservience or indifference, through the performance of assigned tasks, or the distraction and trivialization of potentially critical thought...
...Woolf doggedly stuck to his belief that he could print only the best work and still make money. It was not easy. He and his wife were poor until Virginia's novels began to sell, as well as the works of other distinguished authors on his list: Eliot, Auden and Freud (24 volumes in English). It was an exemplary publishing career, but on the personal level Woolf is a singularly jejune autobiographer. The record of a suicide is always painful, but a curious detachment in Woolf's character leads him to describe the series of crippling psychotic episodes...
These effects notwithstanding, the limerick is very far from being pornography. Indeed, it serves something largely contrary to the purposes of today's pornographers-it produces laughter. Poet Wystan Auden is quoted to this end in the current collection...
...their replies-published in the September and forthcoming issues-they used even stronger language than Auden to describe the confusion, not to say hypocrisy, of many of their fellow intellectuals. The contributors were particularly struck by the fact that intellectuals who berated the U.S. for intervening in Viet Nam also berated the U.S. for not intervening in the Middle East war on the side of Israel...