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...Patterson is long on criticism of ethnicity in its many guiss, he comes up a bit short on substantive solutions to the problems for which it has traditionally served as an answer. Throughout the book he espouses the alternative of a new individualist universalism, envisioning a world in which people respect each other's differences, appreciate each other's individual talents, and come together no longer in "ethnic" but in existential solidarity...
There is, however, still some reason for optimism. Vance will be a softspoken Secretary of State--not a brash individualist in the style of Kissinger--and thus it appears that Carter intends to be his own man in foreign policy. Carter's campaign positions on Chile, on Southern Africa and on an open foreign policy, along with Vance's stated intention to work closely with Congress, may mean that the course of American foreign policy will take a progressive turn, the unfortunate symbolic significance of the Vance appointment notwithstanding...
With his moralist, individualist approach, upperclass lifestyle and unshakeable belief in the democratic and civil libertarian ideals Thomas, never a Marxist ideologue, was at best a bourgeois socialist. Indeed, in his later years, disturbed by the systematic suppression of dissent in Stalinist Russia, he felt his socialist faith slipping...
...Henley-who can ever forget or forgive him?-wrote the unflappable lines that still seem to embroider a motto on his age: "I am the master of my fate;/ I am the captain of my soul." The world, it appeared in those innocent times, belonged to the romantic individualist with a whim of iron. Even pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche celebrated the indomitable will. Not to mention Horatio Alger...
Aalto built widely in Finland and Scandinavia with a few structures elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. A total individualist, he broke away from stiff neo-classicism and stark Bauhaus, and ranks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as an architectural innovator. Unlike such men, however, he never issued architectural rules, attracted many disciples, or even handed down sculptural forms to copy. His work remains influential mainly for what are really moral reasons. " Architecture-the real thing," Aalto once said, "is only to be found when man stands in the center." All architects talk about...