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...told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...
...Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero myths...
Sartre still claims to be an anarchist--that is, he holds individualist activity above any other. Anarchy jibes with his definition of the limit of freedom: "the small movement which makes of a totally conditioned social being someone who does not render back completely what his conditioning has given him. Which makes Genet a poet when he had been rigorously conditioned to be a thief." The Invisible Man affirms his freedom when he says...
...longer valid, it still exerts a powerful hold--as an idea which does not jibe with present reality--on working class consciousness. This ideology is the myth of escape from industrialization, an escape from the industrial city to the pre-industrial country, and by its nature is an individualist wish for self-reliance and liberation...
...LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS EAKINS by Gordon Hendricks. 367 pages. Grossman. $45. A graceful and sympathetic, if somewhat languid biography of the famous Philadelphia artist, individualist, teacher (1844-1916). There is some interesting new material including excerpts from Eakins' own remarkably direct and often charming letters and from contemporary newspaper clippings...