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Much more relevant to this century is the antinomian facet of Gordon's thought, which Leifer rejects as being alien to the Jewish tradition. Maybe that's why I like it (some of my best friends work for Mosaic, don't forget.) The antinomian (existentialist is the current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber...
...been taking a bigger and bigger share of the limelight from the abstractionists. Their purpose is to free art from its own limitations by rejecting any dependence on traditional materials-the painter's oils, the sculptor's bronze. Assemblers believe that art can be found in any facet or aspect of everyday life. They scour attics, dumps, and shops to find objects that catch their fancy. They arrange these objects without any regard for what they were in their ordinary existence. The theory is that, placed in new and startling contexts, the objects will take...
...English-the latest British prop for tots just learning to read. Britain is worried that 30% of its seven-year-olds still cannot read after two years of school; one-quarter of its 15-year-olds are semiliterate; and 5% cannot read at all. On the theory that one facet of the problem is the exception-ridden English alphabet, 1,000 first-graders in 24 schools next fall will tackle reading with a strictly phonetic alphabet. If successful, it may revolutionize ingish...
...Each facet of the presidential responsibility was explored in detail. After the Senate vote last week upheld the present filibuster rule, the liberal New York Post not only threw up its hands in horror-"Is there still no semblance of honor among party leaders in their dealings with those who seek equality of citizenship?"-but held Kennedy partly to blame. "Was it essential that Mr. Kennedy surrender to the South on this issue to salvage the rest of his program?" asked the Post. "We doubt...
Originally, the aim of the surrealists-aside from the aim to shock and to make publicity-was to open up the realm of hallucination, of legend, dreams, and even madness. "The marvelous is always beautiful; any facet of the marvelous is beautiful; indeed, only the marvelous is beautiful," wrote Breton. In one way, time has been kind to the movement, for the best of its members were good artists. But in a world so inured to artistic high jinks, much of the marvelous is gone...