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...Analysis, we all plead innocent with an explanation. Literary critics have remained productively blameless by fitting books and authors to psychoanalytic theory. Leon Edel, 74, knows the limits of this approach. In his new work, the teacher, critic and prizewinning biographer of Henry James explains: "We take from Freud perhaps the richest part of his work, his insights into man's ways of thinking, dreaming, imagining-those elements which have also an influence on motivations and behavior...
Emerson sought to organize the individual soul, not an entire society. His works were essentially prayers for intelligence and character. He preached the holiness of the conscious mind. It is a vision of personal possibility, not a program for the state. Emerson must be held blameless for the fact that his exaltations on individual get-up-and-go have ended, in the fullness of time, by producing George Steinbrenner...
...embrace of John Thompson, 6-ft. 5-in. Fred Brown seemed unimaginably little, childlike and blameless. For a moment, so did college basketball, which is saying something. These days, a coach or recruiter is considered honest if he has never stolen a stove that's still hot. Then, in one hug last week, there was redemption. The losing coach, Georgetown's mountainous Thompson, wrapped his arms nearly twice around Brown, the Georgetown player who had just thrown a pass and the championship away. As if Brown were on a ledge, Thompson held him tenderly beside the court, while...
Chris Keyser, in the crucial role of John Proctor, carries this approach vigorously to its full implications. Proctor, an upright but far from blameless Salem farmer, is tortured by the need to prove to himself and to his truly unstained wife Elizabeth that he is, in fact, a good man. As the witch trials become a raging mania in Salem, Proctor becomes inextricably involved, dragging all his past failings to light--including his liaison a year before with Abigail Williams, the girl accusing the Salem women of witchcraft--but can finally do nothing except die for his beliefs...
Though the major NATO governments oppose the antimissile movement, they are not blameless. "We believe the Europeans are too timid in dealing with paci fist sentiment," says a Pentagon official. "They see no political rewards for themselves in speaking out on nuclear weapons policy and tend to back away from the debate. These governments have to do it for themselves." Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "There are a lot of people in West Germany today who would accept a reasonable explanation of why the government believes [defense] is so important. The people...