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This book leads inexorably to the latter conclusion. What emerges from all the cant and posturing is a very different picture of Albert Speer from what he would like: a cold-blooded, amoral man, lacking the most basic concepts of right and wrong, who even now cannot grasp the horror he did so much to perpetrate. Historian Eugene Davidson was wrong when he wrote of Speer, "whatever he lost when he made his pact with Adolf Hitler, it was not his soul." Albert Speer did lose his soul. Worse yet, he never missed...
...both men and women. What is needed is not an assertion of rights and human actions, but a humble submission to God and his word. From there the church can be reconstructed in our technological age and confront it with a powerful gospel that is radically different from the cant of our modern times. The theological issue is at the root of the whole debate. Kenneth G. Brownell '76 Douglas...
...good citezenship and good fellowship. If they occasionally snarl or squabble over a bone, the battle is short and direct and the motive far more pressing than tenure or trendiness. If some of them are not too bright, they make no effort to veil the fact under layers of cant and credentials. And, on the whole, they seem to be the only individuals in Cambridge who really enjoy themselves most of the time. Long life and good times to them; may they always be there, in the Yard, to keep us from losing sight of the obvious and the eternal...
...exception to the general air of unctuous duplicity is an outsider, a Hollywood choreographer brought in to stage the song-and-dance numbers. Appealingly played by real-life Choreographer Michael Kidd, he treats his charges roughly, without cant, but with genuine, humorously phrased care for their welfare. He almost cons the viewer into believing that the film actually has a heart ticking away fitfully some where near its sneer-meter...
...Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's novel, The Great Victorian Collection...