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Given a long hard look at the Left Wing of the late 1960s as it appeared in Cambridge, one cannot help but observe that there was a singular absence of positive goal-orientation. There was obvious surface manipulation of large segments of the Harvard student body, and more subtle, but still viable, methods of political manipulation of the local low-income populace. It is simply not logical for a `revolutionary' movement not to have positive viable goals...
...year to an orgy of austerity, begging door to door, wearing a barbed girdle, fasting for days on end. For months he endured the terrible depressions of the mystic's dark night of the soul, even contemplating suicide at one point. But what followed was the mystic's singular reward, an immense breakthrough to enlightenment. In a wave of ecstatic illumination one day at the River Cardoner, Inigo became, in his own words, "another...
...Milan, Houston and San Francisco, was jointly organized by the Los Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor...
NASCENT YET, the singular movement of black women, as women, I believe can be realized. Because the necessary sense of urgency is obscured behind the facade of other forms of expressed empathy and solidarity, the few omens appear as ignored and undeciphered glyphs. But listen to the voices sometimes, though I am not inducing you to magnify what in any case is only rudimentary and fragmentary. If there is a "feminine consciousness"(and the words embody a trailing off behind the ineffably seductive); its roots are here...
...natural that mystery freaks-addicts by definition-should demand more of the same from their suppliers, who may naturally want to diversify But the rites of the changing room, the backstretch betrayals, the chill of winter steeplechase meets gave Francis' books their singular texture, and he rang very inventive changes on his basic material. He is downgrading himself when he starts globetrotting like Victoria Holt or Helen Maclnnes. Dick Francis, won't you please go home...