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...Novelist Jules Remains, 85. "Déplacé, indecent and outrageous," sputtered Novelist Maurice Druon, 52. What shocked the "immortals" was the fact that a Frenchwoman had been accepted as a candidate for election to the all-male Academic Francaise for the first time since Cardinal Richelieu founded the pantheon of intellectuals 335 years...
Psychiatrists have always known that a troubled man is his own worst enemy.Now, in language that is literary rather than professional, British Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing has documented what he calls "our violation of ourselves." In Knots (Pantheon; $3.95), a slim volume of verselike forms, he depicts man in bondage to himself, caught in the "webs of maya," or illusion, that he has unwittingly spun...
...years, Kimiko and Johen Powers have been assembling their private collection, incorporating Buddhist works as well as secular works of Japan's decorative and literary styles. Whereas Buddhism documented the sutras (the Buddhist scriptures purporting to contain the words of the Historical Buddha) or created images of its religious pantheon, the decorative and literary styles drew from everyday activities that were less significant in terms of religion...
...WITH ASIA by Noam Chomsky. 313 pages. Pantheon...
President Nixon tosses, turns. The pantheon of the past retreats. Now it is 1971. From his Oval Office, Nixon sends to the Senate the nomination of a Mississippi judge for the Supreme Court. Zap! Confirmed. He asks $10 billion for an expanded ABM system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster...