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...worse through the years: How can democracy survive in a mass society, when its citizens are no longer able to grasp all the complexities of government and when sophisticated propaganda techniques are available to misinform them? Although he was often wrong and self-contradictory, Lippmann remains one of the sanest and most reliable guides through the theories and practices...
This is the second and apparently the final volume in the autobiography of Britain's best literary critic as well as one of its wisest and sanest men of letters. Pritchett's elegant prose and range of knowledge might suggest that he is a product of a proud public school and Oxford. But in Volume 1, A Cab at the Door, he wrote of a decidedly lower-middle-class upbringing as the child of feckless and eccentric parents...
...corner offices of the networks. He did so in 1970, which, to be sure, was not an average year. It was a period of attacks by Vice President Agnew, of diminishing revenue from cigarette advertising, of unusual audience volatility. The result of Brown's endeavors is the sanest-and the saddest-book ever written about television...
...sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure...
Without Thunder. In his son's recounting, Renoir was the sanest and sunniest of men. His biography is a powerful antidote for the notion-acquired, perhaps, from reading biographies of Van Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore...