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...finally indistinguishable from what Mr. Gunn calls "modes of pleasure." On one side stand the byrnied and terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods, the "brave, terrible" queers, "fallen from/ The heights of twenty to middle age," such classic, superannuated hustlers as Rastignac, and "a few with historical/names"--Baudelaire, Caravaggio. Within them all persists the sullenness and flabby dignity of Shakespeare's besotted bed-athlete. Some like him are still determined to "fight maliciously...
...country. For the future, this military stand-off may hold more hope and less bitterness than a clear-cut victory. The "sad peace" concluded at Evian may yet turn into the kind of "association" that De Gaulle had earlier hoped for, and had linked with "the peace of the brave...
Pryor's current preschoolers get the standard nursery treatment: painting, sandbox play, training in manners and cymbal-crashing marches about the room. The difference is that Pryor's kids are in a brave new world. Used to monosyllabic conversation at home, they hear grownups speaking clearly and concretely for the first time. For them, field trips to farms outside Detroit are as exotic as journeys up the Amazon...
Writing recent history can become a painful exercise in intellectual humility. There is no quicker way to discover how much the present dominates our concerns than to try to write about our fathers and their generation. Daniel Aaron's Writers on the Left is a brave, if futile, attempt to exorcise some myths about Communism and the American literary Left during the period between the world wars; myths which, despite Aaron's absorbing book, are not likely to die soon...
...hour exams approach and the need for escape increases, one is tempted to brave the snow and sleet and slush to reach Tremont Street and try the movies offered this week. But take care, for not all the films playing this week are designed to dispel anxiety...