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...first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's performance in foreign policy, Geyelin reports that the President sent the Marines to Santo Domingo with the cry that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit about the President's sentiments toward the Organization of American States; using dashes in place...
That being the case, says Brown, the third panel may really depict Bosch's version of the here and now, while the center scene illustrates the joyful, uninhibited sensuality that the Adamites wanted mankind to practice...
Sexual Golden Age. Brown goes along with Bosch. He believes that mankind's greatest enemy, the skulking killer of laughter and freedom, is sexual repression. He first propounded this thesis in a 1959 book called Life Against Death. That book was largely ignored by both critics and the public. But this new volume, Love's Body, a series of revelatory comments enlarging and elaborating on the same theme, should do much better. For one thing, a few important critics have belatedly reviewed Life Against Death, and the London Observer has placed it on two outstanding-books lists...
When someone asks Norman O. Brown to summarize his theories, he points to a colored print of Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
Most people would say that Bosch was depicting 1) man before the Fall, 2) man sinning, and 3) man paying for his transgressions. But Author Brown, 52, a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Rochester, is not most people. He argues that Bosch was an Adamite, a member of the heretical sect that practiced coitus reservatus-sex without orgasm-in homage to the innocent eroticism that Adam knew before the Fall...