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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gazing at a portrait of St. Sebastian, body pierced with arrows. Years later, with typically gorgeous effrontery, he posed for a photo in which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time...
...context of debate's evolution toward social science research, Garvin and Rosenbaum's accomplishment is more than an elecutionary victory or a shown of virtuosity in an isolated game. Debate's peculiar value is as a forum for the intensive testing of policy alternatives. For their demonstrated ability with this form of policy evaluation, the members of Harvard's championship team merit a great deal of respect...
...That's a problem. That's a risk we would have to take. I don't think he will. I don't think he will do anything unless it is the context of a proceeding in his court. I can't conceive of him urging the [inaudible] of Titus and [inaudible...
...echoes and borrowings. He mines ideas, allusions, archetypes and symbols not only from Zen, but from Greek, German and Christian mythology, from films and novels of the American Road and from the scores of scientists and philosophers who populate his "talks." After setting Aristotle in a historical context he inserts him into American experience by likening the philosopher to a "third-rate technical instructor, naming everything, showing the relationships among the things named, cleverly inventing an occasional new relationship... and then waiting for the bell so he can get on to repeat the lecture for the next class...
...delivered that very night to the lawyer for E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of those convicted of staging the breakin. Also, the jurors were convinced that the President's statement, "It would be wrong, that's for sure," did not refer to the payment of bribes. In context, the statement appears to refer to the granting of clemency ?and to have been made out of political, not moral, considerations...