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Indeed, though the man is an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla, the work is beautifully lucid. Castaneda's story unfolds with a narrative power unmatched in other anthropological studies. Its terrain?studded with organ-pipe cacti, from the glittering lava massifs of the Mexican desert to the ramshackle interior of Don Juan's shack?becomes perfectly real. In detail, it is as thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves...
...would undoubtedly astonish Jan Troell, the director of The Emigrants, to learn that he has made the most political film of the year. On the surface the movie is an epic celebration of 19th century Swedish immigration to the promised country. But within its rich textures is an oddly lucid explanation of some current American phenomena-among them the ethnic clashes in Newark and Canarsie-and for the landslide re-election of Richard Nixon...
Arrow, however, did not receive the Economics Nobel for his lucid explanations of the ins and outs of demand and supply curves. The Swedish Academy of Science jointly awarded the $98,000 prize to Arrow and his theoretical mentor. Sir John Hicks of Oxford University, for their "pioneering contribution to equilibrium theory and welfare theory...
...critics published in Modern Occasions have chosen to take on the responsibility of teaching the lessons they learned from lives peppered with intellectual and political combat--devil take the youth who may initially not care. That seriousness, coupled with lucid expression, makes the magazine essential. It may only reach people who style themselves teachers and critics, but they are more necessary to cultural progress than a generation of "counter-culture" once thought...
Most fortunately for those of us who love the sound of music, Lawrence Berman has not changed his tune in the slightest. As Monday evening's concert demonstrated once again, he combines with consummate artistry the lucid insight of a musicologist, the precise execution of a virtuoso, and the upretentious sincerity of his personality, to recreate music for the piano in a very convincing...