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Pusey said that the reticence to which he referred was caused by "increased insight" and a "healthy scorn of cant." But he warned that although "it is easy to achieve emancipation from false and little faiths," it "is quite another thing." to come to a large and life-giving faith...
...color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story of this revolutionary progress, TIME Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant spent two weeks visiting 13 major heart-surgery centers, donned scrub suit, cap and mask to watch half a dozen operations from the edge of the operating table, saw hearts stopped, cut and patched according to the latest, most daring techniques. See MEDICINE, Surgery's New Frontier...
...pornography, Nabokov in effect replies, in the Anchor Review, that he need not have gone to this much trouble to be pornographic since "in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches." One critic believes that what Nabokov intended was "a joke on/our national cant about Youth." Graham Greene, who calls Lolita a "distinguished novel," has founded a fictitious anti-pornographic society which needles the book's moralistic critics. Harvard's Professor Harry Levin insists Lolita is "a great book, not primarily sexual at all . . . a symbol of the aging European intellectual coming...
...academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining what he sees as the evils of capitalism, illuminate the original approach of Hugh Gaitskell to socialism. "The three evils of the individualistic system," he once wrote, "are inequality of wealth...
Critic KENNETH TYNAN, also in the Observer-He was without doubt a great writer ... He attempted, and almost pulled off, two mountainous tasks: he cleared the English stage of humbug, and the English mind of cant ... As a demolition expert he has no rivals: and we are being grossly irrelevant if we ask a demolition expert, when his work is done: "But what have you created?" It is like expecting a bulldozer to build the Tower of Pisa; or condemning a bayonet for not being a plough. Shaw's genius was for intellectual slum-clearance, not for town planning...