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Liberal Intervention. Speculating on what Keynes would have prescribed for the 1960s, Lekachman does not echo the fierce individualist from Cambridge, England, but the contemporary critic from Cambridge, Mass.-John Kenneth Galbraith. Faulting everything from "the looming menace of automation" to "the dubious or negative social value of advertising," Lekachman is angry with America's "frequently crude and crass material culture" and somehow concludes that the Great Society programs have "powerful tendencies to favor the prosperous...
...Answer. At their best, the new Czech films combine a zest for cinematic experimentation with a thematic audacity and wry humor that is surprising in a Communist culture. A recurrent motif of the Prague cinemakers is the plight of the dogged individualist who bombards society with question marks, and usually receives "Oh" for an answer. Black Peter, Forman's first feature film, is a droll defense of an aimless Czech teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year...
...lets him drive her Buick Riviera and invites him to her father's luxurious summer home, where one of her donnish young Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...
David Henry, 60, Illinois. A stiff individualist (he insists on spelling words his way, such as enrolment with one 1), Henry has a cold, efficient manner that can jar a meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
...good as God intended him, that six heads of state were assassinated for its sake in the 20 years before 1914. Not one could qualify as a tyrant. Their deaths were the gestures of desperate or deluded men to call attention to the Anarchist idea." As an individualist, she obviously feels a certain sympathy for the anarchist idea-"the last cry of individual man, the last movement among the masses on behalf of individual liberty, the last hope of living unregulated, the last fist shaken against the encroaching State before the State, the party, the union, the organization closed...