Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a savage joy in yielding oneself up to Rhetoric. As the flinging (over-embracing) phrases roll out one is only too willing to submit to the force that drives them, the force of eloquence, of excitement, of head-busting grandeur. For an instant (it should not be for more than an instant for that is the way to Demagoguery) the literal truth of a statement is submerged in its origiastic flow of energy. An artist cannot be called irresponsible if he is galloping and pretty...
...Greenwich the blacks are all maids or something similar, and you don't have to think about them because you've put them in a category." Like many in the Class of '68, she has since discovered that prejudice can be checked only by shunning labels, committing oneself to personal involvement with others...
...Poverty is a psychological process which destroys the young before they can live and the aged before they can die," says Yale Psychologist Ira Goldenberg. "It is a pattern of hopelessness and helplessness, a view of the world and oneself as static, limited and irredeemably expendable. Poverty, in short, is a condition of being in which one's past and future meet in the present ? and go no further...
Sontag explores the way in which photography affects one's experience of the world, of other people, of oneself. By certifying and documenting photographs become more important than the actual experience, enduring after the experience itself has passed. The world becomes something to be photographed, something to "shoot," something to put down on paper and look at later. Photographs are the standard by which the world is judged. Sontag describes the disappointment of tourists who find the sights on their vacations less exciting than photographs had led them to expect...
...year ago, it required the diligence of a scholar or the enthusiasm of a displaced patriot to inform oneself on current events in Central and Eastern Europe. It is good to see that the Iron Curtain is now rusting on both sides...