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...country from conceding that it is too much alone in the world? Before the Second World War, a great many Americans sought international isolation. Once the nation be came a superpower it achieved more isolation than anyone ever dreamed of; in a bipolar world, both poles are alone. The individualist Henry David Thoreau called America "The Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow." Do they indeed? All right, then, says the proud country: If we would be left alone, let us be' alone gloriously, ruggedly. And by extension: Let every individual be alone. Prop him in front...
...part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...
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Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer also finds Orwell a compelling figure. "Orwell created a persona for himself," says Kanfer. "He was a complete individualist and something of an adventurer." Reading Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in 1954 inspired Kanfer to travel around Europe-"I was down but I wasn't quite out"-and eventually to pursue a career in journalism...
...birth of Israel was an utterly different sort of achievement. If Lindbergh was the individualist outrider of a new age, the idea of Israel was a collective vision. It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora...