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...made a career on the fringes of broadcasting before he got the idea for the festival. Now he spends nine months a year accepting entries and entry fees, thinking up new categories for new winners, and creating the general aura that he is the next best thing to the Nobel Prize Committee. Taking his favorite U.S. commercials with him, he travels in Europe for an additional month each fall, collecting service fees from Old World admen who want to study U.S. techniques. The other two months are free and clear...
...years after his arrival he resigned his chair in the philosophy department. During the intervening time James taught in four different fields, suffered from numerous physical ailments, and was plagued by a period of intense depression and despair. Wide oscillation in mood and great restlessness gave him a peculiar aura of unpredictability. He was forever darting off to Europe and voicing doubts of his capacity for sustained work...
...Aren't others, as well, alarmed at his public debauch, at his joyous wallowing in the insensitive, at his brazen certainty that we all will join him, slapping our thighs as we screamingly laugh at his vulgar barbs? And for this poison to be lent an aura of legitimacy simply by its appearance in your pages...
...native Parisian, is teaching a French class at approximately the level of French 20. Taught entirely in French, its reading list is impressive and demands much of he 20 students in the course. Among the titles are Cocteau's La Machine Infernale, Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troie N'aura Pas Lieu and Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard...
...abstractness of the opera's characters and the aura of tension which the music drapes upon them create for the drama a mystique like the one it borrows from medievalism. The substance of that mystique is its steady assertion of the opera's profundity through such abstractness and brooding. But it is a fragile mystique which must borrow that of another age to make itself compelling and undertakes no complete replacement of the outmoded issues of that other time. If such drama seeks to establish itself as a spiritual guide, let it do that by attacking the concrete human issues...