Word: path
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Easy Vanity. As this collection of mock essays about mock artists amply demonstrates, no aesthetic theory is too lunatic for Domecq to explain and applaud. He takes up the cudgels for the late César Paladión, an imaginary novelist who followed the path of rigorous logic straight into absurdity. Since all writers, Paladión reasoned, borrow words and sometimes even phrases and lines from other writers, why not take this process as far as it can go? "Reaching into the depths of his soul," Domecq prattles, "he published a series of books that expressed him utterly...
...Slavophilic counter-revolutionary, and neither accepted the Marxist account of the inevitable progress of history. Herberg was a member of the small Lovestoneite faction of the CPUSA, a bitter anti-Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow a path to socialism different from that envisioned by Marx. Dos Passos was a pragmatist who never joined the Party and who was less a Marxist than merely an anticapitalist. The most glaring flaw of Diggins' book is his failure to recognize this critical similarity among the four...
...been guided down a twisted path simply by the quirks of the past or the idiosyncrasies of the school's bureaucratic structure. The GSD's administrative leader strongly shapes its direction, as the current dean, Maurice D. Kilbridge, has illustrated...
Malek's clipped, matter-of-fact insistence that Watergate didn't effect him or his outlook much reflects the Malek of dossier number two: an arch-typical straight arrow who sped up an upwardly mobile path in the military and in business, and found that political realities cramped his style and ultimately dragged him down into a quagmire he says he didn't see forming...
...more dis criminating about what they copy. And despite the machine's debilitating effects on letter-writing, the great god Xeros has kept his part of the bargain: the copy ing machine does make it easier for in formation to be spread. Certainly any thing that greases the path of knowledge is a net gain for society. Besides, with more than 2 million machines in use, it is a little late to stop the revolution. Says Chandler B. Grannis, editor-at-large of Publisher's Weekly: "Copying machines exist. They will be used, legally and ethically...