Word: revelations
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...rather, a primordial problem. Its source lies, he argues in his introduction, in man's basic inward struggle between the "centrifugal pull of the group" and what Patterson proclaims "the noble drive towards individualism." Patterson puts his finger on a fundamental conflict between men's need to revel in their distinctiveness from other cultures--by banding together around unique cultural symbols--and their individualistic desire to strike out and forge independent identities. Patterson thus makes the daring intellectual move of taking on all the various and sundry historical forms of what David Reisman once called "groupism" as targets...
NONFICTION: Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley ∙The Totalitarian Temptation, Jean-François Revel William Morris, E. P. Thompson
...Totalitarian Temptation, Jean-François Revel...
...many thoughtful Frenchmen applaud the New Philosophers' message. The French left, notes Author Jean-François Revel (Without Marx or Jesus), has suffered serious losses of faith in Marxism before-notably with the Hungarian tragedy in the 1950s and the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme...
...drawings. But Bennett Cerf s ego was a volume in itself, and he hawked his wares as if he were conducting the 1812 Overture-with dash, brass and lots of exploding canons. "Everyone has a streak of pure, unadulterated ham," he proclaimed. "Many won't admit it. I revel...