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There is a method in Mamet's modishness. Edmond harbors horrified inner fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned...
...place it was to take in university life During the first years of the new century. Wallace Stevens '01 joined the staff. A young poet named Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 published poems in its pages a few years later. He was followed, in turn, by such literary luminaries as Conrad Aiken 'H. E. E. Cummings '15 (still writing in capital letters), Malcolm Cowley '19, and Archibald MacLeish...
...Terrier Conrad Weledji gained control of the ball at midfield and rolled a pass upfield to right winger Greg Davies. Davies dribbled the ball towards Harvard defender. Frank Ricapito, then cut right just outside the penalty box and shot cross-field. Harvard goal-keeper Phil Coogan had no chance at the ball, which hit the left side...
...this approach. Ever since 1937, all of St. John's students (683 this fall on both campuses) have been required to read and discuss a list of 130 great books, drawn heavily from the classics and philosophy but also from the ranks of modern novelists like Faulkner and Conrad. The students must take four years of math, three of a laboratory science, two of music and two years each of Greek and French. That is just about it. This modern liberal arts version of the trivium and quadrivium includes no such novelties as psychology (except what can be learned...
...character types that American movies have never believably portrayed: the international financier and the Third World revolutionary. By putting both in the same picture, Love and Money hardly doubles anyone's fun. Writer-Director James Toback labors under the delusion that he is a man of ideas, a Conrad or Dostoyevsky of the silver screen, and will go to any convoluted lengths to get a strained or totally phony argument going. In this case, the great mogul (played with a flashy show of menacing teeth by Klaus Kinski) wishes to bump off the revolutionary (Armand Assante) and hires...