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...Nixon is a result of Chinese-Russian antagonism. China is trying to isolate its No. 1 enemy, Russia. The U.S. is the No. 2 enemy. For Russia, China is the No. 1 enemy and the U.S. is No. 2. The Russians hate me. It seems that my only sin is to be too strongly supported by China...
...TEMPTRESS. The Judaeo-Christian tradition and its offshoot, puritanism, run very deep in Western culture. By the preconceptions of this mentality, Eve is the initial occasion of sin. While women frequently seem like supernumeraries in Arthur Miller's plays, the preface to his distinctly autobiographical drama After the Fall is revelatory. He writes: "After all, the infraction of Eve is that she opened up the knowledge of good and evil. She presented Adam with a choice." The sin then seems to be Eve's, and Adam, we are to assume, would have been better off without a choice...
...they took in, and the deficit certainly yawned even wider last year. Meanwhile, taxes keep going up and up. Though federal taxes have been reduced since 1960, the cuts have been offset by severe increases in state and city income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes and "sin" taxes on liquor and cigarettes. Between 1960 and 1970, the tax burden on each American man, woman and child almost doubled, from $711 to $1,348. Many Americans, worried about just what will be taxed next, could echo the Beatles' song, Taxman...
...calls his new specialty "marantology" (from the Greek marantos, meaning withered or wasted). Marantologists would care for those whom no one else wants: the old, the incontinent and the incurable, those who have "committed the sin of remaining alive but not yielding to our manipulations." Those specialists, says Poe, would be taught to see their patients slip away without experiencing feelings of guilt or personal failure...
Whatever his reasons, his elucidations of Agee through his poetry are sound. He emphasizes the poet's sense of history, his demi-longing after death, his impulse to celebration and ritual, and his sense of Original Sin. Where Flannery O'Conner, a contemporary of Agee's and a fellow Southerner and writer, was trapped and finally suffocated by a sense of sin, determinism made Agee all the more athletic in his insistence on love. "From the evidence of his poetry," says Presler, "it seems safe to say that the condition of love--between persons, of nature, as action in life...