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...requires a feat of extraordinary mnemonic ability to recall the time when "art appreciation" connoted something other than people's tendency to push handmade objets deluxe to more and more expensive levels; when it meant the disinterested study and enjoyment of the human imagination for its own sake. Capital growth, once regarded as an occasional and peripheral reward of the collector's passion, has now become its chief-and in many cases its only-purpose. The "successful" work of art is the one that most rapidly becomes a medium of exchange, its meaning certified by bullion...
Mastroianni. Marcello Mastroianni always seems the epitome of the bourgeois Italian, a man who has the time and the interest to cultivate the appearance of urbanity for its own sake. Even when, as in La Dolce Vita, he had an aloof, introspective, critical streak as an observer of society, he was still getting himself involved in meaningless ego-enhancing encounters with Italian starlets. To me, the hedonistic pilot he played in The Grand Bouffe seemed the perfect role...
...nonetheless an American did reluctantly become involved. Gerald Emil Kosh, 27, a Department of Defense civilian employee in Viet Nam who reported to the Pentagon on the performance of the South Vietnamese navy, was aboard one of the Vietnamese ships when the fighting erupted. For safety's sake he was put ashore on Pattle Island, but Chinese troops overran the island and captured Kosh...
...thirties the plight of the poor became an occasion for sentiment. The ubiquitous appearance of middle class values and virtues in the case histories of "representative" men and families among the unemployed characterized a type of superficial "consensus" social science that effaced individuality and sacrificed real insight for the sake of reassurance. The sharp empirical texture and psychological insight gained by participant observation were often undermined by the brittle emotions that academic writers indulged in. Compassions degenerated into pity, and sentiments became substitute for the tough-minded social analysis which the occasion demanded...
...bids for some influence in the department, they have certainly succeeded in gaining ardent personal followers, perhaps as many as one third of the graduate students. At the visiting committee meeting one graduate student declared that the struggle for radicalism at Harvard had to be carried on for the sake of radical Professor Samuel Bowles, who was denied tenure last year. Her emotional appeal was greeted by enthusiastic applause. It's hard to imagine any of the non-radicals generating such loyalty from so many...