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Beyond the Fringe offers the lucid and lunatic drolleries of four young English antiEstablishmentarians. God, Shakespeare, nuclear defense-name it, they slam it, right in the funny bone...
Beyond the Fringe offers the lucid and lunatic drolleries of four young English antiEstablishmentarians. God, Shakespeare, nuclear defense-name it, they slam it, right in the funny bone...
...Impossibility of Crows. In the most trenchant and lucid study of Kafka yet written, Poet and German Scholar Heinz Politzer conducts a tireless search into Kafka's style and imagery for clues that tie the emptiness of the heart to the disfigurement of the world outside. In Kafka's dream landscapes and ghostly characters, he finds threads to the commanding theme-man's search for an absolute from which he has become estranged by an impersonal society...
...would be the Review's ideal future contributors. Hoffmann's article on "Problems of Atlantic Partnership" reflects a mind that has obviously sucked in and organized everything published on European integration, N.A.T.O. defense, U.s. trade and tariffs, and de Gaulle's foreign policy; he has squeezed his conclusions into lucid categories and characteristically spread a thin ironic net over them, which serves to heighten and sharpen his discussion. It is amusing and rewarding, as the editors no doubt mean it to be, to see Hoffmann's thoroughness and detachment showing up the other contributors. "American pronouncements and desiderata are afflicted...
...target for clear thinkers." Yet, "he was a major benefactor of society. He stimulated the teaching and learning of physical science; he enlarged understanding of its scope and methods; he excited a taste for adventure in scientific thought." All this may be true; the ten or twelve pages of lucid essay which have preceded these pronunciamentos convinced me they are true. But Newman is asking us to opt for the pragmatic perspective of science rather than make our own decision on what he has given...