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...work. He was a madman as well as a genius, and his existence was a contest of fear ful contradictions. He was a compulsive sadist with a tender heart, a lifelong impotent passionately involved with women, an earnest clergyman obsessed with excrement, a magnificent intellectual addicted to childish puns, a great master of letters who considered his life a failure because he failed in politics, an Irish national hero who loathed the land of his birth...
Twentieth-century painting has inspired reams of hostile criticism ever since the twentieth century began. Its various forms have been deprecated as childish and fraudulent, have been dismissed as non-art and anti-art. But Huntington Hartford must be the first person who has publicly and seriously connected modern painting with a communist plot...
This mechanical trick of pretending that dirt is desirable and that revulsion is attraction is repeated until it is tiresome. Then Genet smiles like an urchin trying to charm a cop and admits that describing vileness "with words that usually designate what is noble was perhaps childish and somewhat facile." In such a way, being allowed to see that such honest admission of fraud is itself fraudulent, the reader is led through the shallows of Genet's soul. "I keep no place in my heart where the feeling of my innocence might take shelter," he writes at one point...
...fact, facing up to the finality of death is a liberation; it makes life itself more precious: "The idea that death is not absolute consoles the childish individual, but prevents society from being adult. If it were proved that there is an afterlife, life would be irretrievably spoilt. It would be pointless; and suicide, a virtue...
Even if Johnson and Humphrey were less able than they are, it is inconceivable that a vote could be cast for the Republican candidates. Goldwater's childish approach to foreign policy, simplistic criticism of "big government," irresponsible stand on civil rights and unconscionable vote on the Test Ban Treaty head the list of his disqualifications for the Presidency. His pious platitudes, vaulting contradictions, and historical blindness combined with his thinly veiled exploitation of fear and prejudice mark Goldwater as a thoroughly bankrupt candidate. And as Know-Nothingism incarnate ("In your heart you know he's right"), Goldwater has demonstrated...