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Beside the early-resigned there are the early-fatalistic, who put together gangs more readily than novels. Here Goodman offers perhaps his best insight: a view of a delinquent as powerlessly struggling for life within, not resigned from, an unacceptable world. We are reminded of Dostoevski. As Goodman puts it, "On the streets, they feel worthless and abandoned; in the reformatory, they are accepted back home." This is "delinquency-in-order-to-get-caught," or less clumsily, crime for the sake of punishment that implies 'belonging...
Concentrators find it much more, than a difficult language study, though. The general examination tests mainly a knowledge of Russian literature, with emphasis on the better-known writers--Tolstoi, Dostoevski, Pushkin. Theses, required only of honors candidates, generally are written on similar topics...
...private, grades or college, is epitomized by Utopianism (your excellent example, UNism). Even our educators are beginning to admit our educational system is goalless, its fruits: nationalism and relativism, and this dream belief in "the perfectibility of man," quickly shattered by the evidence of our senses. The principles of Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor are gratefully accepted-just give us bread, and never mind freedom and responsibility...
...took a stack of books along on their honeymoon, made her read Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Dostoevski. She took a U.C.L.A. correspondence course in economics and English literature, tackled War and Peace, The Magic Mountain ("I thought I'd never finish that damn book") and Das Kapital ("Ever since then," says a friend, "she has been spelling capital with...
...particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print book by some obscure French humorist for someone who wanted it. And if a student needed a book that he couldn't afford, Phillips often slyly lowered the price. Once in a while, the philosopher merchant would quote a ridiculously low price on a book...