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...should definitely be buried in a time capsule. Assuming that there will be people living on this planet ten or 20 generations from now. of Mr. Kanfer's brilliant writing they will say either, "His genius was before its time" or "Maybe we should try what the uncivilized barbarian suggests...
...resolves to "become like a little child again, a barbarian," a primitive, psychically joining with her father and all the Jungian forefathers. Step by step she regresses into a private wilderness, beyond the last camper's garbage, the last hunter's slaughtered bird, the last echo of the defoliating chain...
...trouble with Nigeria," Sir Alec Douglas-Home once observed, "is that it is so complicated." Certainly this was true of the Nigerian civil war (1967-70), which was perceived by many foreigners as a brushfire rebellion in a barbarian land where thousands of children were being allowed to starve to death. In truth, of course, it was a modern war that very nearly destroyed Africa's most populous and in many ways most promising nation. In this first complete account of that war, London Observer Correspondent John de St. Jorre is painstakingly evenhanded in his treatment...
Archaeologists were delighted with the new technique, which brought Libby a Nobel Prize. By using it to date artifacts of questionable vintage, archaeologists found that it lent fresh support to one of their pet theories-that there was a gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian Europe. There were a few puzzling exceptions: Stone Age tombs in Brittany, for example, were found to date back to at least 3000 B.C. Yet the oldest comparable tombs in the eastern Mediterranean-built by the Minoans on Crete -were known indirectly from actual historical records to date from only...
Obviously there is a Nietzschean streak in Cioran. A chapter called "Skeptic & Barbarian" dubs the skeptic -himself, of course-"that living dead man." With bitter sentimentality he half praises the barbarian, the man in touch with his instincts and out of touch with cursed self-awareness. "He who has never envied the vegetable," he writes, "has missed the human drama...