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In order to solve the problem of didactic clarity-the effectiveness of the work in being correctly interpreted-Sontag simply denounces the interpretation of art as well as works of art which necessitate it. Bazin's doctrine of metaphysical suggestion in portraying "content" is a dead end, then, for radical...
Never has pornography been this skillfully manipulative (or this frustrating), using pure surfaces to arouse "dangerous emotions," and then refusing to purge them. In perhaps overemphasizing Sontag's aesthetics I've neglected to mention how extremely disquieting the film is emotionally, with respect to familiar personal relationships. I'm speaking...
But not before Tom Wicker had tried to instill in us a sense of sin. (Sin, of course, not being part of our "modern" consciousness, it was easy to misunderstand his words. After all, how could one see in PL's self-righteousness the self-aggrandizement of American capitalism, how...
And a butcher was a butcher. In 1933, when Stalin began preparing for his first Great Purge, Mandelstam did a wild and unheard-of thing. He wrote a poem about Stalin, and even read it to a group of literary friends. It began:
Kinsolving's columns still produce enemies aplenty among churchmen. In one column about a conservative purge in the Missouri Synod, he wrote that "the headquarters of the Missouri Synod looks like a Parisian guillotine basket, circa 1793." Dissident clergymen, Kinsolving gleefully reported, were calling the denomination's president...