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...could return from that other world whose existence, as a good Marxist atheist, he of course denied, Lenin would be dismayed by the quarrel but hardly surprised. Contrary to its reputation, Communism has never been a "monolith." Communists live in a violent hate-love relationship, and have always reacted to one another's heresies far more viciously than to any "class enemy...
...others, Senator Fulbright distinguishes between a country's internal Communism, with which the U.S. supposedly has no quarrel, and expansionist Communism. From that, it may be a short step to thinking of "good" Communists (Moscow) and "bad" Communists (Peking...
Carlton Colyer plays Tom (he resembles Miss Field so strikingly that I thought for a while he was her real son) and is convincing both in his tenderness toward Laura and his angry frustration with enslaving responsibilities. I quarrel only with his reading of the narrative passages which open and close the play. These are certainly some of Williams's most beautiful lines, but they sound false when Tom puffs so suavely on his cigarette and speaks them so flatly. Mr. Colyer is trying to be "natural"; I would have him let the lines ring...
Stuffed tripe, boiled eggs, Edam and Gouda cheeses, several kinds of sausage, salt shakers filled with chocolate to sprinkle on the bread and butter-it was the usual Sunday breakfast enjoyed by a prosperous Dutch middle-class family. The quarrel raging over the breakfast table was recognizable too. The family did not really approve of daughter's fiance, and now the headstrong girl was demanding a big church wedding with all the family's most important friends invited...
...errand in "Perry Miller and Esoteric History." His first sentence strikes close to the heart of "the method": "The unmistakable impulse at work in all of Perry Miller's writing is his determination to get beneath the surface of his materials and reveal an esoteric pattern." One may quarrel with Fleming's word "esoteric," but there is no denying the accuracy of his insight; it was no private reality that Miller pursued, however, simply a difficult one. His remarkable announcement that all of Jonathan Edwards must be read as a "cipher" demonstrates exactly how Miller postulated complexity in human affairs...