Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Shaw did get personal, he was apt to be insulting. He declared to Henry James: "It is really a damnable sin to draw with such consummate art a houseful of rubbish." After passing on his post as drama critic of London's Saturday Review to Max Beerbohm, he panned him ferociously. Beerbohm annoyed the master by observing that Shaw honestly believed that logic, not passion, made the world go round. How vulnerable G.B.S. the puritan superra-tionalist seems today in his rebuttal, waffling on about something he called "Reasonable Emotion...
...Artisans. At this point-the crucial point of the manifesto-Roszak becomes vague. To be overly specific, he suggests, would be to commit the sin of "single-vision" rationalism that he objects to. So he runs on about "a drastic scaling down and decentralizing," a "massive de-urbanization." He proposes making "antigrowth" a positive value. He suggests a new economics of "low-consumption" based on "kinship, friendship, cooperation." If they are not paralyzed by cynicism or timidity, a saving remnant of "hip artisans," "ecological activists," "people's architects" and "dropped-out professionals" will find their way back to Arcadia...
...hear it from the pulpit, from Marxist socialist professors, that people commit crime because they're underprivileged. I went to school barefoot in the snow and ice, [but] I didn't shoot a policeman. I didn't hold up any store. You commit [crime] because of sin in your life...
...soil. As a stand-in for St. Christopher, the bearer of the young Christ, Tiffauges must carry Tournier's most cumbersome load. This is the burden of innocence, the surprisingly heavy weight of the holy child, who is shouldered above the flood but also protects his carrier from sin and danger...
...Fiedler, the portrait of Shylock is proof positive that Shakespeare is antiSemitic. But is it? Shylock was a moneylender, and usury was long held by Christians to be a horrific sin. In deed, Jews entered the field by default rather than design. Is the Mafia loan shark or the friendly neighborhood bank really less intent than Shylock on getting its pound of flesh? In addition, in the matter of both women and Jews, one should always remember that Shakespeare's world was the world of Christendom. A mind steeped in the Christian tradition had to be wedded...