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...contemporary society: novels, psychiatry, sociology, pornography, politics, and worldliness in general. In his view, humanity's chance for redemption lies in unquestioning faith. That alone can reconcile the hopes of humanity and the violence of history. Shapiro takes a circuitous route to arrive at Dante's dictum: "In his will is our peace...
...struck village walls. But out of these signs Motherwell has fashioned a resonant and funereal sequence of images that, despite its repetitions (when in doubt, paint an Elegy), is one of the few sustained tragic utterances in post-Picassoan art. He has always been faithful to the abstract expressionist dictum (which he helped formulate) that subject matter is crucial...
...Charles confided that his various love affairs had been interrupted by about of impotence. "We laughed uproariously," she writes her daughter. "I told him that I was delighted that he had been punished for his sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...
TIME always practiced "personality journalism" and still does. But events made it ever harder to uphold Carlyle's dictum that history is but the biography of great men. At 60, we still believe in the power of men and women to shape their fate, but TIME is less likely than it used to be to explain events through people; roughly half of its covers are about trends and events rather than individuals...
...them first the four will most certainly kill him, as soon as his usefulness to them is ended. He kills them, but not before he has received his own death-wound. In the Coast Guard cutter that has picked him up, half-delirious, dying, he tries to voice the dictum that is the book's real motto: "No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody -* chance...