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...MODERN THEME-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2). Expanded lecture by one of Spain's foremost thinkers, author of The Revolt of the Masses...
...KRUIF - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND - Anonymous - Liveright ($3). A NEW DEAL - Stuart Chase - Macmil lan ($2). OUR TIMES : Vol. IV, The War Begins, (&-" - (,93-75;-1909-1914 - Mark Sullivan - Scribner (3.75) RETLTRN TO YESTERDAY-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($4). THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2.75). THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE : A NARRATIVE OF D. H. LAWRENCE-Catherine Carswell -Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). THE SECOND COMMON READER-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace ($3). WINGS OVER POLAND-Kenneth Malcolm Murray-Appleton...
...looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed 1,557 bulls, was gored badly three times, killed the fourth time; the almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant, vulgar and low"; Lalanda. "unquestionably the master of all present fighters"; Freg, the Mexican veteran who has 72 wounds, has been given extreme unction five different times...
Making a vital distinction between "mass" and "class," he defines "mass-mind" as the commonplace mind, no matter in what class it is found. The massman is barbarian, only concerned with his own wellbeing, content to plunder civilization, not labor intelligently to continue it. By his definition of "barbarian" Ortega y Gasset covers a multitude of public "leaders": "If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. That, in fact, is the position of the massman when he speaks, lectures...
...become tyrannical. In former times "the masses asserted no right to intervene in [government] ; they realized that if they wished to intervene they would necessarily have to acquire those special qualities and cease being mere mass." A fierce believer in aristocracy of intellect and character, not of heredity, Ortega, y Gasset calls such organized mass-government as Fascism and Bolshevism "two false dawns . . . mere primitivism." Europe's answer, he thinks, is to build itself into one great state in which, he implies, the massman will...