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...tempting to throw Jay Cantor's collection of essays. The Space Between: Literature and Politics, into the same category, to classify this faintly off putting, heavily scholastic series of musings on literature and politics as the author's answer to nagging self-doubt. And, the book does carry a heavy tinge of "all-these-Yeats-and Williams-quotations-are just-as-important-as your-rallies," irritating because it should not have to be stated...
...Cantor demands thoughtful response. In "Eccentric Propositions," the book's short introduction, he posits that art is itself "the process by which value was created, revolutions made." From numerous philosophers Cantor develops the idea not that art is more important than politics, but that they are the same thing: "Politics, work, all human culture is symbol formation, is poetry." Though Cantor begins, like so many theorists, with the need to apologize for the arts, his conclusion is fresh and rings true...
THIS IDENTIFICATION of political action with the creative impulse is the book's strongest point. While Cantor sticks to it, his writing stays clear and provocative--in his contention that Years, through his poetry, forged the Irish Easter rebellions into a "moment" of history; in his analysis of Joyce's efforts to submerge Ulysses entirely in its own language, "testing" characters in the equivalent of cultural revolutions; in his vision of the poet as legislator and the legislator as unsung poet. In the last essay of the book. "Gesturing with Materials," he sees in revolutionary political movements an analogue...
...small California station. As a CBS announcer, he achieved notoriety when he introduced President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever." Von Zell was a commentator on early March of Time programs and his quick wit won him roles on the radio shows of Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and Ed Wynn...
...respected universities as Wisconsin, Indiana, Temple and Ohio State are using various courses, often with hefty supplements. The televised segment, after all, is intended less as a self-contained course than as a lively and visually far-ranging substitute for a droning professor. Quality varies. Says Iowa's Cantor: "At its worst, it is vacuous. But at its best, difficult material is portrayed very graphically." A segment on sensory psychology is literally a cliffhanger: a man uses his tactile sense to claw his way to safety while climbing. Afterward, diagrams with flashing electronic lines show how impulses speed along...