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...Review is equipped to take the Republic's dusty seat. The publication has no letter column -- a prerequisite to discussion. More important, the editors have not learned who their good and bad contributors are. So far they show no signs of learning. Lionel Abel, who has written a lucid critique of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers in the current issue, is obviously a brilliant reviewer. Norman Mailer who reviews Mary McCarthy's The Group on the front page of the same issue is, on the other hand, a useless and horrid contributor...
...document. Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition had somewhat less reason to rejoice. The report, based on a three-month investigation of the Profumo affair by Britain's second-ranking judge, dismissed most major charges and every squalid rumor of government culpability in the case. In 60,000 lucid words, Denning rejected persistent reports that other Tory ministers had been involved in bizarre sexual exploits, left no grounds for belief that John Pro-fumo's affair with Christine Keeler had resulted in any leakage of Allied secrets, and quashed partisan speculation that Harold Macmillan's Cabinet...
...your article [July 12] on Martin Buber. I feel that your words on the subtly profound philosophy of Buber, indicating that his life's thought might have a definite, here-and-now influence on the chances of Homo sapiens' continuing existence this side of holocaust, were complete, lucid, and maybe even eloquent...
This kindly, lucid scientist has called us all to look again where bees dance and spiders spin...
Answers to Problems. Recently published in the U.S. is a layman's lucid study of this new quest, by German Protestant Journalist Heinz Zahrnt, called The Historical Jesus (Harper & Row; $3.50). Zahrnt points out that the Marburgers differ among themselves about the scope and validity of the quest, but share certain assumptions as to how it ought to be carried out. For them, biography is not simply a record of "what happened when," but an explanation of how a person understood himself in the context of history. "Our existential experience is the condition for our interest in the historical...