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...couple of clownish counsels for the defense. One of them addresses the jury: "I leave thk with you, and I know that when you consider this case from all of its aspects every part of the statements, and the beatings, and the lack of will, and lack of intellect-do you think that these boys, lacking practically any education (that's another item to be considered by you)-I say that the resistance here was overcome by force...
...fantasies soon set in. Lola took refuge in astrology and nature mysticism. She revived briefly to write a book of beauty secrets (to prevent wrinkles, she suggested binding thin slivers of raw beef tightly around the face) and made some lecture tours ("Let historical justice be done to the intellect of woman," she implored. "I am content to leave the history of her heart and moral life, without comment, to defend itself by contrast with that of the other sex"). But at 41, she had a schizophrenic collapse. She spent the last two years of her life shuffling along...
Unpredictably clever, obscurely erudite, obstinately elusive about answering his own questions, Sloan could be the Comrade V. of novelists: the talebearer as dehumanized intellect. But he is not-quite. As in his first novel, War Games, brilliance is redeemed by anguish-evidence that Sloan's passion is not for the labyrinth but for the people trapped in it. And to potential subway-syndrome readers, this makes all the difference. "Melvin Maddocks...
...ostnesibly private institutions to resolve social issues, the universities' retreat to a prissy functionalism is simply irresponsibility. Self-limitation of the university's social activity by appeal to the arch-humanist conception of the function of education may reinforce the middle class academics claim to be an "autonomous intellect,." But it flys in the face of the crudest political and budgetary realities, and gives up the battle just at the point at which it whould be joined...
...Congratulations on your fine article. We mystics and anti-reason advocates, priests, devils and the like have ruled the world for many centuries, interrupted only by such inconveniences as the Renaissance. Aristotle gave us a bad time when he identified the rational intellect as man's greatest possession, but now, with your help, and with today's philosophers and intellectuals behind us, we will assume our rightful place on the throne of rule by guilt, fear and superstition...