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...surrealist rhetoric does not survive translation: its use of blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when plucked from that context. But the freeing of imagination by the surrealists remains a tremendous achievement. Be yond the froth - the ideological absurdities, the rampant narcissism, the window display and chic decor - surrealism remains one of the century's noblest proposals of liberty...
...employed it as an obstacle to evil. He was the Russian of our Napoleonic phase." Others acclaimed him for his clear reporting, and his straight-to-the-heart analysis. He used his reporting for political goals. He warned of the dangers of McCarthyism when it was just starting to froth up. He began a written and spoken resistance to the Vietnam War long before doing so was fashionable. He has attacked the arms race, the rise of government power, and the politician's principle that nations come ahead of people...
...Colacello's "Out" column makes the reader froth at the mouth at its name-dropping and wolverine voraciousness for The Stories about The Only People Worth Writing About. Even if one had been raised to venerate age and all that jazz it would be hard to feel any rush of attraction to this man who eyes the camera with all the vivacity of a flounder. This issue he describes "How I spent my Summer Vacation." In Harvard Expository Writing classes even freshmen flee from this uninspiring topic, but Colacello is raring...
...Educational Development Center in Newton, Mass., and while working on an animal volume was struck by a photo of baboons disciplining their young. It looked so much like human parents dealing with their children, recalls Trivers, "that it was possible to imagine language as just so much froth on the ocean, and that there was something else underlying human discipline. It occurred to me that to understand human behavior, it would be very helpful to examine the behavior of other organisms...
Until this moment in 1915, the white colonials in the outpost have been on congenial terms with a nearby, equally unaware German settlement. Now they work themselves into a froth of jingoism and decide they must attack their neighbors. More precisely-and this touches one of the film's controlling ironies-they decide their black natives must attack the Germans' natives...