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...believes that an individual has extraordinary powers that can only keep on growing if he develops himself at all costs. Bach means all costs. This is a doctrine given considerable lip service in the U.S., which likes to remember itself as the land of the rugged individualist. But such counsel is rarely followed, in part because of sentimentality and fear of ridicule. One of the funnier episodes in Bach's life was the moment a little over two years ago when Captain Richard Bach quit the Iowa Air Guard ?and the weekend jet flying he loved ?rather than...
...consummate film craftsmanship to produce his final statement on the nature of young love. It's the film most typical of Bergman's early romanticism (nostalgic tinges re-appear in such darker masterworks as Shame or The Passion of Anna). Beyond Smiles itself, Bergman always epitomizes the searching individualist colliding against walls of spiritual disbelief, or the bonds of society which disrupt human happiness. A description of Simon himself, at times...
...require, as the plan says, that "the people of Maine feel free to submit personal interests to the common good." While none of the proposals is unprecedented-Oregon has put its entire Pacific shoreline in the public domain, for example, and many states encourage community corporations-Maine's individualist Yankees do not take kindly to infringements on their liberties...
Poor rugged-individualist Schrag! A nasty fate is in store. Before his manifesto has time to dry, all those despised WASP liberals will be lining up to sign their plastic John Hancocks...
...personal involvement that cares nothing for the unthinking yellow-grey morality of suburban conformity. And in ways, that is the lesson of all Forster's moral philosophy. In 1939, he wrote an essay called What I Believe, and what he believed in was Personal Relations. He had an individualist's fear of drowning in the teeming masses. So the solution was to be Personal, individual to individual, beyond politics, beyond class, beyond morality. That is what he meant when he wrote...