Word: dialecticism
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Since the Claremont Quartet played three modern works Thursday night, the question naturally arises of how radical each quartet was--traditional? tonal? or dissonant? "formless"? But assigning each work its spot on a spectrum of radicalism is quite irrelevant to experiencing them, because dissonance, tonality and the like have a...
This is the apocryphal legend of Ahasuerus. the Wandering Jew condemned by Christ to homeless immortality. If Ahasuerus had not been invented by some unknown storyteller of the Middle Ages, it seems likely that Swedish Author Par Lagerkvist would have reinvented him to embody the mystical dialectic of his own...
Schwarz became a skilled anti-Communist orator, speaking from the pulpit (long a lay preacher, he describes himself as "a narrow-minded, Bible-believing Baptist") or on the public platform. He recalls one triumphant debate in his younger days with a Communist leader in a Sydney park: "I mentioned Dialectical...
Frightful Morality. The grotesque group therapy of the pornographer prompts the author to quote a passage from Mann's Doctor Faustus: "We only release, only set free. We let the lameness and self-consciousness, the chaste scruples and doubts go to the Devil." For Devil, Bloomfield adds thoughtfully, "read...
Last September, exasperated by Yugoslavia's dissident Communist Dictator and his blanket defense of Soviet nuclear testing, President Kennedy vowed that the U.S. would no longer give aid to nations that profess neutralism while supporting Communism. As a first step in implementing that policy, the State Department pointedly held...