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...human reason persists as the best available tool to deal with complex temporal problems. Love, intuition and spirituality help somewhat but we have gotten ourselves into an economic and social interplay of forces which requires some intellectual delicacy and foresight to keep in place. Intellectuals possess substantial powers of reason and ought to be willing to use them in the denser underbrush of a complex society instead of only in its airy reaches...
Underground party members in Spain were bereft of central command during the long exile, necessitating local and regional decision-making. The growth of illegal workers' commissions, dominated by party members over the last fifteen years, confirms the trend. These factory-based councils have ties to the PCE but possess limitless autonomy. Laborers set up the commissions to defend their wage-and-hour interests in a way that the Francoist Sindicacio Nacional does not. The councils have no set programs, no dues and no distinctions are made between members and non-members. The activist membership which the commissions channel into...
...Bicentennial finds some thoughtful Americans seeking a renewed sense of covenant and virtue, even though the concept embarrasses many. Few speak of moral progress or Utopian hopes in a moment like ours. Yet it is possible that today too little is made of those rare virtues that we do possess. The Catholic bishops' committee that came to scold stayed also to praise. "Many of the new emphases are positive and praiseworthy: sensitivity to the dignity and fundamental equality of all men and women; increased concern for individual self-realization; broadened perception of the moral decisions which must be made...
...named. Sartre calls this "positive misinformation." Similarly, words can go to the extreme of "non-knowledge" instead of meaning-as-knowledge. This kind of distortion is possible in any language simply because the printed or spoken word is a physical reality. The words "frog" and "ox," for example, possess a sound and image totally unrelated to the animals they conjure up. Sartre contends that a phrase like "The frog that wants to become as big as an ox" contains, in an inextricable blend between materiality and meaning, much more corporeal density than the expression...
...lives of its minor artists. To write about them without falling into postures of condescension, gossip or overpraise is one of the toughest of all biographical feats. It requires a lack of sentiment, a close eye for social nuance and a sense of balance which not many biographers possess. Holroyd has it all, and Augustus John is his ideal quarry...