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...SECOND half of his book the author adopts a variety of personae, from Orpheus to Luther to Satan himself, to demonstrate both the range and limitations of dialectical argument. In a mock soliloquy titled "Shorthand Transcript of a Metaphysical Press Conference Given by the Demon in Warsaw, on 20th December 1963," Kolakowski impersonates Satan in a remarkable exhibition of incontestable sophistry; he argues for his own existence in a discredulous age along the lines that his very strength lies in the fact that he does not exist. In other soliloquies, notably in one given by Abelard's Heloise in defense...
...aesthetic consequence - no more, say, than the comparisons between one Siegfried and another. The role is always greater than its actors, and its nightmarish content has become somewhat abstract. Nor will the rise of some future Hitler be discouraged by the belief that the Führer was a demon. The demonic, in human affairs, is generally an oversimplification. With Hitler, it is also a refuge. We do not like to diminish ourselves by admitting him to our species; so we take his own delusions at face value, and tend to suppose that he was not human, but an embodiment...
...fight Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, the crowd at the Fight of the Century was largely black. It was in their silent ambivalence towards him that Frazier, lying with his face in cotton gauze in a hospital after the fight, must have first found the tracks of a stalking demon. It must have then crossed his mind and reared the haunting possibility that no matter what else he did, Joe Frazier would never be anything more than a white hope in black-face on the black shirt of the world...
...That Demon, as it happens, took the form of George Foreman last week in Kingston. Until this fight, Foreman was best known as the boxer who waved a miniature U.F. Flag after he won the heavyweight gold medal at the Olympics in Mexico City, Coming soon after the black gloved salute given by John Carlos and Tommy Smith during the playing of the national anthem in an earlier awards ceremony, Foreman's gesture received much praise from those troubled by the "black power" movement in sports. They interpreted Foreman's flag as a sterling sign of patriotism and a rebuke...
...Demon in Disguise--David Bromberg (Columbia). Bromberg made his reputation as a guitar-player. Hereafter, he will enhance it as a versatile entertainer. To pick my favorite cut on this album would be absolutely impossible. The title song and "Jugband Song" show off Bromberg's sense of humor both in performing and writing. Some Irish fiddle tunes and "Sugar in the Gourd" give him a chance to display his guitar and mandolin-playing talents. His "Tennessee Waltz" is as kind to the old standard as any singer's rendition could be, and his version of "Mr. Bojangles"--half-singing, half...