Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gracefully into the fabric of the whole movie and portrays fascism as a crackbrained aberration that allowed for some moments of ritual absurdity even as it brought forth a kind of cagey, half-comic defiance. One of Amarcord's most memorable episodes concerns the playing of the socialist anthem from atop a church steeple, an incident that is part practical joke and part moral gesture; it implies a kind of human resiliency more moving than any call to arms...
...idea is to create, to organize a model, or potential model, of a liberal advanced society. We have models of socialist advanced societies, like Sweden, or in some ways Germany. But we have not had in Europe, until now, a real model for a liberal advanced society ... France is a traditionalist country, one that hangs on to its past and traditions while leading a rather active intellectual life. There is an apparent contradiction between intellectual life and the sentiment for traditions. But from time to time one must try to reconcile those, and I would like to use the intellectual...
...revolutionary intelligensia" of students must show the American working class that socialist revolution is in its best interest, the national chairman of the Spartacus Youth League told a Boylston Hall audience of 25 last night...
Lamont goes on to deny that an Oedipal complex, arising from hate of a father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual...
Stoppard seems chiefly concerned, in Travesties, to explore the relationship between art and social class. The aesthetic theories associated with Tzara and Lenin-dadaism and socialist realism--are both attacks on the conventional bourgeois notion of art, though from different directions. Yet just as Tzara becomes as conventionally middle-class as a character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Lenin himself is only moved by the decadent art of Chekhov and Beethoven. Joyce, perhaps, offers another angle on the problem, but one not explored much by Stoppard, who leaves Joyce as a tweedy, limerick-spouting stage-Irishman and stock anti...