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...Williams' view, life is an insensate jest in which a man is gradually divested of everything that makes life precious, except the gallantry to go on, the one rock-bottom value that Williams never relinquishes. The disenchantment presupposes an initial enchantment. Williams has always lived and preached the creed of the high romantic. The high romantic pushes his hopes, ideals, joys, pleasures and desires past practical limits, past sensible limits and, finally, perhaps past human limits. Like an eternal child, he wants it all and, when he cannot have it all, his heart breaks...
...revolutionary Marxist" is the way Belgian Economist Ernest Mandel describes himself. In 1962 and again in 1968, Mandel toured the U.S., lecturing at a number of universities. But because of his openly announced political creed, Mandel had to receive special clearance by the Department of Justice to make the trip...
...incidence, he reports, is especially high among prostitutes and the poor, regardless of creed or color. The death rate is twice as high among low-income Negroes as among all whites, but no higher among high-income Negroes than among high-income whites. The incidence among Jewish women generally is extraordinarily low, although it rises a bit among the poor. Cervical cancer is least likely to attack women with fully circumcised husbands...
...times more servitudes," cries Muggeridee, and Savonarola in top form and full throat from the pulpit of the Duomo cried no louder. We are gabardine swine losing life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The real modern religion is "utopianism," and by that ism, Muggeridge means the universal creed of the modern world. No more "fatuous" slogan was ever devised than the pursuit of happiness asserted in the Declaration of Independence. "The darkness falls to idiot cries of progress achieved, of mankind having come of age," Muggeridge writes, "with vistas of technological bliss, and LSD trips over the hills...
Here, no bar of classes or creed...