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...Lately, the range of Wallace's appeal [Sept. 13] has disturbed me. The racist, hate-oriented and obscurantist flavor of his political stand has always offended me. The appeal of his ceaseless efforts to assail the "pseudointellectual" elements in our nation has particularly concerned me. The social, economic, political and technological problems we face are among the thorniest and most complex that have ever confronted us. They require intellect for solution. But George Wallace vilifies intellect and inevitably links it with subversive interests...
Glints of Skill. Behind Cortázar's stubbornly obscurantist prose falls the shadow of a story. Its central figure is Oliveira, one of a group of frayed Left Bank intellectuals who read Carson McCullers, play old Coleman Hawkins records and dither boozily about reality. Oliveira is a man suffering from "world-ache" and Baudelairean tastes; the two go together. He is later seen in Buenos Aires, where he has gone either to look for La Maga, whom he has lost, or for his own identity, which he has never found. In the company of old friends, he meanders...
...that evangelical Christianity represents a step toward maturity of the conservative impulse. "Conservative Christianity is growing by trying to become respectable," says Dr. Nels Ferré of the liberal Andover Newton Theological School, and he credits it with seeking "an intelligent evangelical faith. The conservative movement is neither an obscurantist fundamentalism nor a negative modernism-and it is making inroads everywhere...
Considered objectively, and without recourse to a somewhat obscurantist idea that whites and Negroes are intrinsically incapable of understanding in another an idea which is always assumed, (never demonstrated), the notion of an Afro-American Negro unity which trancends all other ties extremely questionable, to say the least. African Negroes have come from a social environment which is still by and large tribal and industrially undeveloped, and a political situation in which absolute colonial rule and rigid racial paternalism were until recently completely predominant. Their sympathies often tend to lie with Marxist notions of forced economic development, and with...
...sons,' however, as Turgenev's 'sons,' interest themselves very little in ideology. But the reasons for this disinterest change considerably between the 1860s and the 1960s. The young intellectuals of Turgenev's time were materialists in an obscurantist and harshly unjust world because theoretical abstractions did not produce bread for the hungry peasants. But the current generation of intellectuals, brought up during the Stalinist era, and having both bread and ideology, fights for neither...