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...Hunter finds it curious that The Revolt of the Masses, by the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, has been so long neglected. If our "Progressivists" were to read it, they would find that they are not progressive at all. They are, in fact, "old hat." America is just now experiencing what Spain saw in 1930 and what Russia saw in 1905! Mrs. John R. Fawcett...
...Relevant to the Essay, Ortega y Gasset also noted, "For plant, animal or star to live is to have no doubts concerning its own being. None of them has to decide what it will be the next instant-thus their life is not drama, but evolution. But man's life is exactly the opposite -it is having to decide every moment what he must do the next moment and therefore having to discover the very design of his being." So it seems we have no choice but to continue to make choices, and how can we make choices without...
...have to be so predictable? Alas, it is original only in its extremism. Men have always longed for pure freedom, always dreamed of re-birth-on-the-cheap; and who lives out his life without at least one trip to the brink? "Man always travels along precipices," Ortega y Gasset noted. "His truest obligation is to keep his balance." What is new and perverse in the '70s man, bankrupt in common convictions and up to here with cultivating his precious self, is the hope of finding salvation by jumping. It is as if Lear's soul-shaking prayer...
...Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset once compared a work of art to a window through which life can be seen without the need to account for the structure, transparency and color of the windowpane. Nowadays, most artists would argue that quite the reverse is true. With cameras available to record the view behind the windowpane, the artist must concentrate on making his window preeminent. In fact, the 20th century has witnessed the development of a genre that consists of windows seen through other windows: in other words, works of art that deal with other works...
...race relations, engaging in the improvement of- housing and rehabilitation of moral derelicts, uplifting economically depressed areas, or supplying art to the community-all this without evidence that they are equipped with the talent, organization or experience to succeed." Barzun agrees with the late Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset that the university "has abandoned almost entirely the teaching or transmission of culture...