Word: humanisme
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In living out the all-consuming struggle of good and evil that Dick posed in his writing, we were never the equals of our emotional commitments. No action seemed to resonate at the clear passionate note of the call to arms. The will of commitment never seemed able to discover...
Mixed Record. "In all his actions," observes British Sovietologist Robert Conquest, "one saw a limited but not hidebound mind, and with it a sort of peasant cunning. But in the end, he antagonized his subordinates without sufficiently terrorizing them, a fatal lapse." Khrushchev died in official disgrace, reduced by the...
It was a moment when pop culture, nourished by everything from hard rock to Prufrock, stood on a tiptoe of expectation. Could the eclectic age -borrowing everywhere from the Bible to Porgy and Bess, from Beethoven to the world of Hair, from the symbolic body and blood of Christ to...
In moving from Nuremberg to Venice, Dürer reversed a whole direction of cultural priorities. The centers to which German artists had previously looked, from their provincial isolation, were Bruges and Ghent in Flanders and the northern Gothic style shaped there by artists like the Van Eycks and Hugo van...
"THE REVOLUTION isn't coming soon," says Dr. Arthur Bauer, Marxist-intellectual-in-exile of Susan Sontag's Duet for Cannibals . If this is so, the role of the alienated cultural vanguard-both necessary and sufficient-must lie in assaulting the ruling culture, in destroying the primacy of bourgeois humanism...