Word: corruptedness
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Though colonels and captains crowd the King's payroll, his prized possession is R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Marlowe, played with smashing impact by James Fox (the corrupted young aristocrat of The Servant). Marlowe becomes an apostle of King's anything-for-a-buck philosophy because it works miracles for...
Mr. Lasch grounds his initially biographical approach on the Hegelian premise that "history is the record of consciousness" (anybody's consciousness) and on a mass of largely unexplorel family records: the Bourne and Addams papers. But as the opportunities for original research decrease a complex and rather obliquely stated thesis...
Says Yale's Philosophy Professor Paul Weiss: "They were never true eggheads, those tempted by cocktail parties and Government grants. The true intellectual does not even belong in his own group and never has many friends." Robert Hutchins agrees, distinguishing between operators and real intellectuals. "An intellectual is trying...
After all, Al Vellucci is nothing more than the old ward "boss." Most civic texts frown on bosses. The boss, the theory runs, sacrifices the general interest to the very particular needs of his own district. And there is al- ways, the implication that the "boss" or the machine is...
What is Mailer's "American Dream?" It must be a whole horizon of dreams gone sour, not into nightmares but into that phantasmagoric horror of hallucinogens, where one feels the vomit recede back down the throat through massive pressure from neck muscles. The Valentino Dream of sexual power gone wild...