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...Canaday's main fault is that he sometimes seems to prefer to harangue in generalities than to come to grips with this or that particular artist. But this kind of knuckle-rapping is not always out of order with a group that can be as pretentious and self-righteous as some of the abstract expressionists. They in their turn have not been notable for their broad-mindedness toward their opposition-to which a legion of first-rate artists belong. "John Canaday," said Realist Edward Hopper in a letter to the Times this week, "is the best and most outspoken...
Fear of Resurrection. Right or wrong, Murry was far from self-righteous. In his religious quest, he enlisted a band of fellow pacifists early in World War II (though he later abandoned pacifism) and founded a Utopian community called Lodge Farm where, Sunday evenings, he delivered sermons. Not as the Scribes is a collection of these lay sermons, some of them infused with at least as much religious feeling as the average Sunday pulpit, and others simply emotional humanitarian tracts...
...first take the Socialists. They had not enjoyed the confidence of the people. During the riots of May and June, there were few placards proposing the establishment of a Socialist government. Their abstract arguments and self-righteous criticisms of the government had had little appeal to the average voter. Further-more, they had failed to address themselves to the solution of concrete problems, while deeply immersed within theoretical controversies among themselves. The atrophy of confidence in the opposition party, as well as in the governmental party, might suggest an eventual demise of parliamentarianism itself, reminding one of the situation...
...interesting that the condemnation has been so out-spoken and self-righteous, because it indicates that the crime involved strikes close to home. People who merely defy the nation's values are crackpots, and are dismissed lightly because their sins aren't frighteningly poignant. But the tremendous pre-occupation with Van Doren's guilt shows that he has done much more than defy American values; he has embodied them...
After all the charges and countercharges had been debated, the seminar wound up earnestly deploring "a loss of respect for women among young men," and calling on students to form "squads to apprehend and check" disrespectful behavior. All but lost in the righteous furor was the quietly reasonable voice of one male student. "Tell me," he asked, "is there any country in the world where the boys do not indulge in this game...