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Without saying that youth will be the revolutionary spark and the essential factor of revolutions, youth will be crucial. Youth is crucial because youth has a clearer conception of life, youth has not surrendered to the vices caused by years of bourgeois prosperity, youths must understand that they must be studious and hard-working. The young person must go to the factory or to the land. You have to do voluntary work; it is good that the medical student learn how much weight the peasant must carry on his back and the long distances he must carry...
...speak in sharp images, in direct familiar tones. T.S. Eliot challenged it by showing that verse might use myth and nightmare to say something complex about 20th century society. Auden was a brilliant colonizer of lands they discovered; less remote but also less magical than Eliot; wiser and clearer-sighted than Pound; younger and metrically more inventive, with more humor too. He was first heard in the 1930s, sharpening his satiric clauses on the foibles of pre-Munich England...
Nobody could be clearer about the incomprehensibility of the world than Franz Kafka. Novels such as The Trial and The Castle, stories such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Hunger Artist" and "The Burrow" are the Grimm's fairy tales of the modern cloven spirit. Ordinary men awake to find they are helpless insects, or are found guilty of unknown crimes by unknown judges. One man wastes away in a cage, not because he is being starved but because he has never found the kind of food he might want. No grails are to be found in Kafka, no word...
...Eastern college, an awfully confused alienation. His father asks, "Well, what do you want?" and a mumbling "I don't know" is the most he manages. This in '67 when anti-war protest was at its heyday! The Beats who issued position papers in the 50s had a much clearer idea of what they were rejecting. Moreover, the movie obfuscates the fundamental question it asks--what is Benjamin Braddock to do with his life?--with a fairy tale convention--love tried, tested and won, to be carried off in an orange bus. And so it obscures a radical secret...
...Eastern college, an awfully confused alienation. His father asks, "Well, what do you want?" and a mumbling "I don't know" is the most he manages. This in '67 when anti-war protest was at its heyday! The Beats who issued position papers in the 50s had a much clearer idea of what they were rejecting. Moreover, the movie obfuscates the fundamental question it asks--what is Benjamin Braddock to do with his life?--with a fairy tale convention--love tried, tested and won, to be carried off in an orange bus. And so it obscures a radical secret...