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Lyons, the final speaker, portrayed Perry as an "Individualist in the Community." Besides characterizing Perry as a political liberal, famous for his letters to the N.Y. Times, Lyons described Perry as a "collective individualist...
Died. Ralph Barton Perry, 80, gaunt, horn-rimmed humanist and longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy...
PICASSO, by Frank Elgar and Robert Mailllard (315 pp.; Praeger; $5), is as ingenious as it is instructive. It follows the great Spaniard's endlessly experimental career from boyish leanings on older masters to the unpredictable individualist of old age who still defies simple analysis. The book does this in parallel critical and biographical commentaries that are expertly illustrated by the pictures appropriate to each page. A valuable attempt and this year's real bargain among art books...
Giant's handling of the individualist in society is equally revealing. Jett Rink, the lonely and withdrawn poor white who strikes oil to become the richest man in Texas, represents, if anything, the Outsider. He may also represent Class Conflict, or Sudden Wealth. The confusion is significant--Hollywood does not know what to do with Jett, the non-joiner, does not know to what to ascribe his "peculiarity." This uncertainty probably stems from the fact that America offers few existing outsider "types" to work from...
Hollywood's attempt to rid itself of Jett Rink by getting him drunk and rolling him under the table indicates its fear and misunderstanding of the individualist. But Jett's downfall also serves as a "justification" of the standing order. The Giant argument apparently is that individualists are kept poor for a good reason--they drink and they like to work off steam by hitting people. But Hollywood is not content with this--it insists on blaming the individualist for racial prejudice. Jett Rink, in his supreme poor form, calls Mrs. Bick Benedict III (a Mexican-American) a "squaw." Obviously...