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...Prime Minister, was a 21-year-old soldier on the southern island of Kyushu. At that time, he would have fought to the death for the Emperor. But when Murayama, the son of a simple fisherman, attended university after the war, his view of traditional authority changed. He read Marx and became a socialist. He joined a club devoted to the study of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who put him on guard against the foolish consistencies that are the hobgoblins of little minds. Last week the Prime Minister broke ranks with the little minds in his government and spoke...
...subject to the scientific method. But the paradigm of the scientific method--testable propositions subjected to double-blind and replicable experimentation--is not the only criteria for evaluating academic undertakings. This is certainly true in the formative, exploratory phases in the development of an idea. If Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx or Martin Buber had been required to satisfy a committee before they could continue their research, the world might have been deprived of significant insights...
...roles like glossy-magazine archetypes in a masque. He's a self-contained realist, she a self-doubting romantic. He won't talk and she won't stop. Their ups and downs are delicately choreographed by a well-read Puck who's not afraid of quoting Thales, Heraclitus, Hegel, Marx and five others in a single paragraph...
...teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative is to stay alive. In another French drama, Le Plus Bel Age ... (Those Were the Days), middle-class students indulge in sadistic occult rituals. The film's gruesome hazing scene suggests a twist on the famous Groucho Marx line: I wouldn't want to join any club that would have me dismembered...
...Eliot and Charles Dickens and of seven earlier novels, including The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton, Ackroyd has moved skillfully and often between the provinces of fact and fiction, with particular attention paid to the muzzy, fuzzy border between the two. By the time the historical Marx and Gissing and the imagined Cree sit together in silence in the Reading Room, the books they choose not only define their characters but also contain hints and echoes of a larger story in which all three are unknowingly involved...