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...feel, easier to succumb to apathy than to take a stand. "Human will begins in a 'no.' " he writes. "The 'no' is a protest against a world we never made, and it is also an assertion of one's self in the endeavor to remold and reform the world." Elsewhere he has said: "I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell...
Shakespeare, a former television executive who has little tolerance for negative thinking, was distressed by the apparent defeatism of his seasoned staffers and he is trying to do something about it. He has set out to remold USIA as a hard-sell exponent of U.S. policies in the 104 lands where it operates. In the process, Shakespeare has involved the agency in more controversy than it has seen in years, and has given it its most partisan tone since cold-war days...
...have today and it would be a ghastly mistake to allow it to degenerate into the middle-class art form that classical music is, or into the cliquish limited-audience music that modern jazz became. It is disturbing to see many of the best musicians in America trying to remold rock in an alien jazz and classical music inspired cast...
...forgotten the convention," he told his supporters. "We've forgotten the Vice President. We've forgotten the platform." For the next two months, he said, he would work for senatorial candidates who supported his view on the war. In the future, he would work to remold the party...
Antithesis of Brecht. In this "farce to make you sad," Ghelderode systematically and satirically derides all the causists who ever hoped to remold the world. There is Pantagleize's Negro servant Bamboola, a naive firebrand who believes that overnight "the Negroes will be made white." There is Blank, a poet who dabbles in politics and diddles in literature. There is Innocenti, a lawyer passing as a waiter and living out the logical absurdity of a politically engaged nihilist. Pantagleize is oblivious to all except Rachel Silberchatz, a Jewish girl as splinteringly comic in her undeviating revolutionary fanaticism as Pantagleize...