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Huang's speech actually was delivered last November. Its significance as party dictum was demonstrated by the fact that it was suddenly reprinted last week by major newspapers all over the country, commencing, significantly, with the Liberation Army Daily...
...songs were somehow more influential than those who wrote its laws, though since Bob Dylan there hasn't been much proof of this. Perhaps power now goes to those who affix the country's labels. Editors and others who do so should recall Albert Einstein's dictum that everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler...
...simpler times, most Christians felt bound by St. Paul's admonition (in I Corinthians 6) to "suffer yourselves to be defrauded" rather than take a fellow church member to court. That dictum has long been widely ignored. Now, litigious Americans are going even one step further: they are starting to sue the collars off their pastors for malpractice...
...true that the Agrarian dictum "reaction is the most radical of programs" dates badly on the subject of race. Most of the Vanderbilt prophets leave themselves open to the criticism that when they did not behave as if slavery had never existed, they acted as if the slaves had loved it. But in the end, the Agrarians were not political economists; they were poets searching for a metaphor. When they called for a "world made safe for the farmers," surely it was because they believed that such a world would also be safe for poets...
...ground work for his passive vision of a just society. But he does not completely abandon the revolutionary zeal of his earlier years. In the '80s, he cannot reasonably expect to form an intellectual vanguard for a socialist revolution, but he can justify his moral theorizing with Rousseau's dictum--"If I were prince or a legislator, I should not waste time in saying what wants doing; I should do it, or hold my peace." Today's liberals ought to take Walzer seriously, for, perhaps, the principles are all they have left...