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...problem of evil has long been the province of philosophy. Philosophy is not particularly interested in that question anymore. (Nor is the world much interested in philosophy, but that is another matter.) Journalism has taken up the slack. Unfortunately, journalism is not terribly well equipped to handle it, principally because journalism is a medium of display and demonstration. When evil is the subject, the urge to display leads to dark places indeed...
...disgraced when they do not excel at their studies. Le Giau expressed pride but Daughter Jennifer was ashamed when she came in second in a spelling contest. Son Nguyen, who plans to study engineering and then become a doctor, is still concerned that he has been infected by slack U.S. student habits. Reason: instead of straight A's, he pulled a few B's in his senior year in high school...
Less stimulating is Schuman's Three Colloquies, a Philharmonic commission from 1980. A tired essay in Schuman's '50s style, the piece is only occasionally brightened by some pretty noises and adept writing for the solo instrument. Perhaps in response, Mehta turns in a slack reading, greatly in contrast to Weisberg's electric way with the Crumb...
...author throws away his script and improvises a coruscating sermon. Celebrities become the graven images of this slack age, and on their well-coiffed, carefully blow-dried heads he calls down fire and brimstone. Others have drawn up the formal indictment against the cult of celebrities. Schickel offers a white-hot jeremiad. In idolizing and loathing the celebrities we conspire to create, we bury real humanity. Woe unto the celebrities whom we are so good at killing, he warns, and woe unto us. Is there an answer to this sorry circle of fame and deceit? Schickel's conclusion: "Resistance," holding...
Self's financial transactions make the phrase "filthy lucre" seem quaint. He spends in a slack-jawed trance usually associated with pornography. Wads of currency go for hogsheads of alcohol and composts of fast food. His car, an overpriced Fiasco, is nearly as costly to keep as Selina Street, a sexual acrobat and shakedown artist whose faked orgasms excite Self more than the real thing...