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...more I read of Americans, the more I am convinced that George Bernard Shaw was right, when he said: "The Americans are the only nation to leap from barbarism to decadence without becoming civilized." Today the great Statue of Liberty is just a mockery because you are undoubtedly the most bigoted, narrow-minded and sadistic race in the world, both in your intolerant and unjust attitude toward the colored race in your midst, and your intolerance toward any religion except the one you think is right-self-worship...
Best guess was that Khrushchev had concluded from recent speeches of Western statesmen that he was not going to hornswoggle the West into concessions either by "peaceful coexistence" or even summitry-and had decided to leap ahead of his critics. For in Communism's harsh code, only results count. Peering over Khrushchev's shoulder is Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who challenges him as a Marxist theoretician and as leader of the "Socialist camp." Mao, who knows that it is not China that will get hit in a nuclear holocaust, has insistently been crying out against...
...Babylonian Gnostic Mani, who taught that the Creator is an evil being opposed to the good God, Manichaeans viewed the world as bad and salvation as escape from it. Modern Manichaeans are those whose hunger for the spiritual leads them to disdain the material; they try to make the leap of faith without having their feet planted firmly on the ground...
Judith Anderson has done this sad thing to Medea and Laurence Olivier has done it to both Oedipus and Richard III." Leap Out of Time. Fear of conformity sometimes results in a false personality cult. "The artist becomes the isolated, romantic hero, instead of taking up the task of building . . . higher and deeper rituals wherein alone personality will be achieved and our cheaper conformities or etiquettes restore themselves to sense." Even in as Roman Catholic a writer as Graham Greene, Critic Lynch finds "a subtle if unconscious demonstration of the Manichaean way"-especially in the novel...
Everything lives and moves across the stone, not with the fluid grace of classical Greece, but to the harsher beat of the darker desert world. But to the artists who shaped the limestone, the lions clearly were heroic. They leap to the attack, roar with indignation; at times they seem to have more humanity than the stiffly muscled and ringleted men who torment them. Always, the lion dies, but his is also the final glory...