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...vision when he fled the duplicitous world of his mother's Hollywood entourage. But Marion was cursed with an intensely painful moral sense-he never escaped adolescent dreams of becoming a priest-which ultimately short-circuited his attempts to destroy himself and those around him in great purges of oblivion. BZ is equally disgusted-and so, it would seem, is Joan Didion, who writes of her allegiance with Marion in an essay entitled "On Morality"-but BZ lacks Marion's moral fervor. BZ is simply tired. The fervor has long since burnt away. BZ confronts Maria with the possibility...
...some 60 years after his death, Porter was also a brilliant primitive painter who decorated the walls of countless New England homes with wild landscape murals. But he was far from a traditional example of neglected genius. In many ways, Porter was the most active collaborator in his own oblivion. He never settled anywhere for long; he failed to patent most of his inventions. Above all, he left most of his hundreds of portraits and murals unsigned...
...denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have pop . . . and op ... and art cinetique . . . There are Playboy Clubs and homosexual movie theaters . . . amphetamines and tranquilizers . . . anger, affluence and oblivion. Much oblivion...
...recently and with a few notable exceptions) Western psychology has avoided looking at the whole of life. As our world image is a one-way street to never-ending progress, interrupted only by small and big catastrophes, our lives are to be one-way streets to success - and sudden oblivion." But lately Erikson and oth,er psychiatrists have become interested in all stages of man's development, and the "aging" that goes on at every stage...
HALLO, HAROLD! bannered the cover of London's Economist, and British papers, depending upon their bent, either hailed or deplored the sudden re-emergence of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who only a year ago had seemed well on the way to political oblivion. Following the Labor Party's 1966 landslide victory, which gave it a 97-seat majority in Commons, the Laborites suffered an almost unrelieved series of setbacks. Plagued by problems at home and abroad, they lost one by-election after another to the Conservatives, and Labor's rating in the public opinion polls plummeted...