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Many observers are most concerned about the sadistic component of much current pornography. "No civilization, with the possible exception of the Aztec, could produce an art whose sexual ferocity would rival that of the West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that...
...Right now you do not have a more representative voice for Latin America -representative in many different ways-than Octavio Paz." Marichal said. "He's not only an ambassador, but a critic of himself and the world. He has been a very brave...
...Paz, who was born in Mexico City in 1914, began to write poetry as a young man. He travelled to Spain during that country's Civil War, later founding a review on which many Spanish writers, exiled in Mexico after Franco's victory, collaborated...
...Paz has a wide range of artistic interests. His most recent concern has been the relationship between poetry, space, and movement. He recently inscribed a poem on four cardboard disks, so that by moving each disk he could give the poem a different meaning...
...Norton Lecturer, Paz will give six talks, all of which are open...