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...avoided, individuality is stressed-which often made Romantics rebels against society. Man is naturally in tune with the divine in nature until he lets himself be corrupted away from his original innocence and natural virtue by organized society. On the whole, Romantic feeling has been a social outcast, preserved by poets and writers, celebrated unwittingly by ordinary men. The rational approach assumes that anything, including God, that cannot be proved to exist, does not exist. One essentially Romantic reply in religion was Kierkegaard's assertion that man must leap into faith, as into darkness, with no reassuring proof that...
Crowded into such blighted slum areas as Manhattan's "Bloody Ould Sixth Ward," the unskilled and uneducated Irishman was the social outcast of the time. Terrorized by slum gangs (the Dead Rabbits and the Patsey Conroys), shunned by native Americans who despised his rough, alien ways, his papist religion and his uncouth brogue, the average Irish immigrant had to work at the most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled...
...Vision, who was the offspring of Eight Thirty and Knothole. But long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying as always to combine ancestry and euphony, Vanderbilt has concocted...
...montage snipped and pasted together from past works. Old dogs doing old tricks is nostalgically acceptable from performers like Maurice Chevalier or Marlene Dietrich, but coolly and perhaps cruelly rejectable from major playwrights. With eloquence and gallantry, Williams introduced to U.S. drama the previously inadmissible evidence of the emotional outcast and the sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon of playwrights-men like William Inge, Robert Anderson and Paddy Chayefsky-became Freudian...
...community." And that may be the most profound point. The goal of crime prevention can be reached partly by attacks on crime-breeding social conditions, partly by creating more efficient police and courts. But also vital is a new concept of mutual reconciliation between convict and community: the outcast must be allowed to earn his way back and thereby learn to believe in himself...