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...TEMPTING-and far too easy-to judge Brecht by political criteria, to praise or condemn him for his Marxist perspective. Brecht himself encouraged political judgements of his work, viewing his plays as vehicles for his repudiation of the bourgeois lifestyle. He writes of his first play, "Baal is a play which could present all kinds of difficulties to those who have not learned to think dialectically." Likewise, he repudiates the popular success of Drums in the Night because he felt that it was based on a bourgeois misunderstanding of his purpose: "... the people who were so wildly anxious to shake...
...validity of that teach-in's program is not an issue: the utter immorality of all that the participants represent is manifest and is taken as assumed. Our "liberal" critics perhaps share this judgment, but they condemn our abuse of their sacred, traditional liberty-freedom of speech. I assert, in reply, that no one has the right to commit the crimes which our government and its lackeys are committing in Southeast Asia. Such criminals-and such representatives of theirs as we saw on stage Friday night-forfeit any "sacred right" to mouth their lies in my presence. They must therefore...
...sadness and pain, the decision to condemn the disruption is unavoidable. It is not enough to point to the University's past failures to live up to its ideals in order to justify our present failure to do so. And, in the final analysis, actions of this sort can not be judged on the basis of their motivation. For academic freedom is meaningless if its application is not universal. And, however much we might wish to treat the atrocity of the war in Indochina as an overriding reason for suspension of the principle, it simply can't be done. Even...
...picks fights with her over everything from the newly born baby's name to the thank-you letter he must write to the Senator who arranged the installation of their telephone. Antoine is destructive in all this bickering, as well as in his affair, but it is hard to condemn him for it. There is no enthusiasm to his indecencies; rather, it is just the desperate, almost random lashings out of a man who rightfully cannot adjust to the prospect of settling down...
...deal with because-in my opinion and I'll say it-you're getting close to a position that Herbert Marcuse and others take: you feel that you have the right to decide what to "understand" and by implication be tolerant of, even approve, and what to condemn strongly or call "dangerous" at a given historical moment. You feel you have the right to judge what is a long-term ideological trend, and what isn't, and you also are judging one form of violence as temporary and perhaps cathartic and useful or certainly understandable, with...