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...quite sure, in spite of the fact that it reminds him of a DeMille picture with crowds of "extras" in it, that some of the millions of people who view this painting are not genuinely moved by it, or that they do not even consider it, as I myself confess to doing, one of the seven wonders of the modern world...
Toulouse-Lautrec, a count's son gone bohemian, could confess to the dance-hall Chanteuse Yvette Guilbert: "Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them." But from his own ugliness. Toulouse-Lautrec turned away, preferring to caricature it outlandishly to make his friends laugh harder. He could not resist telling Vincent van Gogh, who struck most men on sight as physically unattractive, where to get his rotting teeth fixed. But his pastel portrait of Van Gogh shows a warmer, more searching glance. In reply, Van Gogh humbly...
...giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord on their knees and publicly confess their sins. They accepted the evangelist's big, red-blooded handshake and sometimes they signed a vague little pledge card...
...unrealistic objective that every captive must attempt to preserve American prestige, the code need not desert all standards. Rather, it should rely upon the instinctive, more sacred American justification for sacrifice; group loyalty, aimed at minimizing the hardships of fellow prisoners. Even if prisoners of war are allowed to confess their own "crimes" freely to lessen torture, they must not lighten their burden by betraying fellow prisoners. Each prisoner should be obligated to withstand torture whenever possible to prevent incriminating a fellow prisoner. Also disclosure of vital information, bringing danger to American troops, deserves the full punishment...
...value system embodied in the American Way of Life. Where the American Way of Life approves of love of one's fellow man, most Americans confidently assert that they practice such love; where the American Way of Life disapproves, the great mass of Americans do not hesitate to confess that they do not practice it, and apparently feel very little guilt for their failure...