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...pressing issues of politics. The attempt to legitimize art, in a world increasingly skewed towards the political, the economic and the scientific, has assumed some strange configurations. There is the essentially Marxist-inspired vision of poetry as the picture of life after the Revolution; the poet, as Party servant, illustrates prophecies, bringing the dreamers' vision alive for the toiling workers. The same impulse can be detected in the Emersonian vision of the poet as the "head" atop the shoulders of the state's "body," standing apart and philosophizing, essential to society in his very aloofness from its obvious daily functions...
Wealth is not without its burdens, Kahn notes. In the same paragraph he reports that Jock had thrifty sets of golf-clubs and a servant to switch channels on his television set. Although no one bore him "jealousy or rancor," his wealth isolated him from other men. Kahn claims. But Kahn describes Whitney's social schedule as hectic and emphasizes that Jock drew friends from many walks of life. He had "a great emotional need to feel useful." Philanthropy filled the need but it raised the problem of where to send the checks. Yale or Groton...
Andrew L. Kaufman '51, professor of Law, lauded Cox as "a wonderful teacher, a wonderful public servant and a wonderful colleague...
Mailer's principle-art should redeem or rather, more important, exculpate the artist-reached its full blossom as a tenet of Romanticism. The artist, for centuries regarded as merely a liveried servant of church and aristocracy, sprang up out of the bourgeoisie in the early 19th century as a dashing hierophant whose work connected him to the divine. It excused everything, from rudeness to homicide. "The fact of a man's being a poisoner," proclaimed Oscar Wilde, "is nothing against his prose...
Britain has two reigning queens: Elizabeth II and Quentin Crisp. Or so Crisp maintained in his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant. In it, the former artist's model and self-described stately homo of England detailed his early life and hard times. The book was surprisingly comic, acidulous and touching, and the TV-film version won awards for Actor John Hurt. It was precisely as the old poseur had figured: "Even if you only lean limply against a wall and you happen to live a very long time, gradually it will begin to give...