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...editorial of February 1st on the lessons of the Vietnam War, but this editorial was hardly a defense of Robert Tucker's Commentary article on the use of force in the Persian Gulf. It urged that we pay attention to Tucker's argument and not reject it on a priori grounds. But finally The New Republic found the risks of intervention "great" and the moral issues "ambiguous," and urged economic rather than military measures to cope with the oil crisis...
There is only one way to tell: by a thorough examination of the phenomena by those who do not express an a priori belief. By those for whom probability is not a mystique but a comprehensible code. By those who have nothing to lose but their skepticism. Until such examiners are allowed to play the psychic game, it is unlikely that the paranormal will escape the ambiguous utterance against it in Leviticus: "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them ..." And that most wondrous and mysterious of entities, the human mind...
Although they all come from live models or immediate motifs, none of Arikha's pages look as if they began with a firm, a priori grasp of reality. A case in point is his Self-Portrait Shouting One Morning, 1969. "I was in a filthy mood," Arikha recalls. "I climbed out of bed, yelling at my wife, yelling at the shaving mirror . . ." The bleary-eyed moment of evil temper is caught with acid precision in an image as transitory as the mood itself. The quick, scrubby notations for nose and cheek bone and wiry corncob hair compose themselves around...
...goods with him into the winding darkness below the sand, Picasso in dying has removed an idea of artistic activity from the West-an idea of which he was the last great exponent. It has to do with a passionate omnivorousness, a scale of experience not limited by a priori definitions of what painting or sculpture can carry; with an energetic and Mediterranean humanism. The life springs from the appetites, and the art from both. Or now, "sprang"; for no artist left alive has been able to rival Picasso's cultural embodiment of the self. The confidence in which...
Fuller, best known for his design of the geodeisic dome, spoke about himself, man's evolution and "an eternal, a priori design in which we can see the working of that evolution...