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Panther defenders often excuse their rantings as merely militant rhetoric. Obviously it cannot be dismissed that way. The use of language carries responsibility, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out in his famous remark about crying "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Rhetoric has a significance and catalytic effect of its own. In the tense U.S. of 1970, Hilliard's public cries of "Kill Nixon" could be a dangerous incitement to psychotic action on the part of others...
...work touches on that close edge of experience or why it lies just beneath the surface of all things: the intention is to prevent confusion by celebrating an alliance with the words themselves. These poets, then, are proletarians, and their knowledge of alienation far exceeds our own. Kolakowski's remark about "the 'objective' wealth of reality" appears ironic, a mere aphorism, to poets whose reality is as tragic as his has been. Nothing is perceived as whole; in a metonymous gesture, hands come to represent a process of history...
There is something strange, say some visitors to Israel, when, every hour on the hour, a whole country stops to listen to the news. There is something wrong, they remark, when the sound of an airplane makes a whole nation look upward and sigh with relief when the plane is recognized as a friend...
Burgess' insular joke book is old, but the joke is a good one and the author tells it with relish, as if for the first time. An example of the author's catholic English wit: loony squire replying to a patronizing remark of the vicar's about animal pleasures: "And don't be too hard on animals. There's a lot of good in animals, especially when they're killed and cooked...
Freckles and Braces. The daughter of a public-health pathologist in Oxford, Maggie grew up with freckles on her face and braces on her teeth. She still recalls her grandmother's remark to her mother when Maggie announced that she wanted to go into the theater: "Oh, you can't let her, not with that face." But it didn't keep her from working her way up from the prompter's chair to walk-on parts as a maid, and then to traditional repertory...