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...OPIUM OF THE INTELLECTUALS (324 pp.)-Raymond Aron-Doubleday...
...times the French cult of revolution seems "indistinguishable from the Fascist cult of violence." Enemies of the church, French intellectuals have hankered for a substitute religion and found it in a kind of futurism." Revolution. Aron says, serves as a refuge from reality for Utopian intellectuals; Communism is their opium...
While acknowledging their importance for having refeshing ideas, Miller sniped at such varied personalities and institutions as H. L. Mencken, Christian Science, Marxism and "athelstic existentialsm." The latter, he said, lacks spiritual and social vitality, while Christan Science he called an "opium cloud of religion, the idolatry of spiritualism...
Razzia means raid in most European languages, and the picture describes an attempt by the French narcotics squad to break up an international drug cartel. Raw materials: principally opium-smuggled from the Balkans in the wall of the men's room in a day coach. Manufacture: by a derelict chemist in a well-equipped laboratory in the cellar of a shabby frame house in a rundown suburb. Distribution: by courier to retail outlets, by an infinite variety of special arrangements between buyer and seller. Protection: by hired thugs-a small outfit by U.S. standards, but what they lack...
Stewart also contributes the only creative work of the issue, a sort of opium illusion called "A Mango For Emelina." Magnolia-mashed Colonel Ashcroft ("a memento of a dead nation's long ago Armageddon") stalks to a garden rendezvous with his boyhood love, Emelina. As he bends to kiss...