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"Take the General Education Report," he ventures. "The outstanding fact was hardly in its Intrinsic newness, for similar approaches had been attempted else where, but in its tremendous effect among faculties all over the country. Only the imprimatur of Harvard University can get that effect. Why at Cal there's...
What is exasperating about all this is that the novel so gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters. Inflated Bel, a meddling woman busily climbing the social ladder; dough-mouthed Mungo and his horsy noble-blooded bride; rattle-brained David unable to decide between love...
Economical Devotion. Munich-and Vienna-trained Scholar Born, who has lived in the U.S. since 1937, admits that U.S. still-life painting is only "a humble annex to the art of the world," but he thinks it has its charms. "Still life," he says, "is the chamber music of painting...
Shoeshine was intended as a furious and moving indictment of a postwar society, and of a world, in which such things could happen. It is all of that, and more. It makes the oversimplified diagnosis and prescription of most social tracts look like so much complacent blueprint. It is filled...
They seem rather few these days. Yet the mystical tradition is sustained by many poets and intellectuals, for example, T. S. Eliot. And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share...