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...peculiar and original genius of Novelist John Cheever to see his chosen subject-the American middle class entering the second decade of the Affluent Society-as figures in an Ovidian netherworld of demons. Commuterland, derided by cartoonists and deplored by sociologists as the preserve of the dull-spirited status seeker, is given by Cheever's fables the dignity of the classical theater...
They were wrong. Driving toward the Jan. 11th runoff election, McKeithen, 45, a lawyer-farmer from the small town of Columbia, fell back on the Southern office seeker's tried-and-true technique for getting votes: he ran on the race issue. Although he had al ways before been considered a moderate on race, he now charged that Morrison had made a "deal" with the N.A.A.C.P. for the Negro vote. "Without question," he cried of the first primary, "98% of the colored vote went to Mr. Morrison." To a New Orleans rally he declared: "The only things that increased...
...Triads and Trinities And Other Like Affinities EXPERIENCE MEDIATOR PRINCIPLE sensation fact rule id ege superege quality individuality universality being existence essence tough-minded pragmatic mediator tender-minded once-born seeker of a universal religion twice-born healthy-minded seeker of emotional maturity sick-souled mother child father Holy Ghost Son (as historical figure) Father affection cognition conation (will, material artist form aesthetics metaphysics ethics spirit reason law Instinct organism habit
...lady-killer, as well as a philosopher.... But the thing is simply impossible.... Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereup-on become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failures are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs, carrying shame and gladness with them...
...Negro "status seeker," as Mr. Frederick H. Gardner justly observed in last Friday's CRIMSON, is not an effective "equalitarian." He does not win our admiration as do the courageous freedom fighters. But it is presumption to scorn the Negro who seeks personal betterment. Few persons are cut out to be crusaders, and to insist that every Negro is under moral compulsion to make himself an unwilling sacrifice is cruel and destructive...