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...mediocrity is the natural condition of humankind, then genius is the purest and rarest of diseases. Tortured writers, earless painters, mad scientists all live inside the quarantine of their own superiority, distanced by their difference from the world they illuminate and help-recreate. To 19th century romantics the genius was a superman; to most of us today he may seem both more and less than human, an idiot savant, a freak of nature...
...last Thursday, nothing more than the right to elect a man to the White House. With one swift stroke, however, the Democrats have made it possible for women to enter the final phase of their enfranchisement. Win or lose in November, Geraldine Ferraro is now emblematic of the truest, purest facet of the American dream: that every citizen is entitled to an equal chance. In this version of the dream, the idea is that every child can grow up to be President. Her immigrant father, Ferraro recalled last week as she stood alongside Walter Mondale in St. Paul, made...
Tereza comes to conclude, at the end of the novel, that the purest love is between a human and an animal; she wishes her husband were a rabbit. Tomas himself decides that "Attaching love to sex was one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever...
...Mondale's caution is justified. He cannot really hope to re-emerge as the clear favorite to take the nomination unless he wins the New York primary next week. In many ways New York poses the purest test to date. Mondale is no longer burdened by his aura of inevitability, and Hart is no longer a novelty item. Voters should be less swayed by ephemera...
...VERITABLE melee of artistic issues that gives Donoso's novel most of its Does a work of art point outwards by mirroring, or does it stand apart from the outside world by reflecting--or inventing--human qualities in their purest form? In brief explanations interspersed through the narrative. Donoso insists that his novel is artifice and that a book should not remind its audiences of its daily existence. But he clearly depicts the turmoil produced in Chile and other clearly South American countries by an export illustrates the conflict between a foreign investors' elite and an entrenched local elite descended...