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AUTHOR: SUSAN SONTAG...
...before the U.S. lost its trade balance, it was lopsided with intellectual goods from Europe. Marx, Freud, Sartre and Levi-Strauss were required cribbing. Books translated from the French and German were best sellers and their authors culture heroes. So were their interpreters. As a critic and novelist, Susan Sontag handled European ideas and forms with brilliance and style. The camera loved her dark good looks, and she became an American knockoff of the Continental intellectual as gravely seductive celebrity. The brain, she said on at least one occasion, is an erogenous zone...
...survivors strike the same general themes: anxiety, ostracism, lost relationships, trouble at work and difficulty in getting adequate health insurance. The stigma long attached to cancer is only slightly diminished in the age of AIDS. Cancer is to the 20th century what tuberculosis was to the 19th, wrote Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor. In the popular imagination, it is not just another disease but the embodiment of evil. In some European countries, it was a common practice for doctors to lie to their cancer patients. Physicians would give the diagnosis to the family but not to the victim...
...Tsongas and the other cancer survivors that reverberates beyond the success or failure of this particular presidential campaign. They share a remarkable optimism, a feeling that their pain-filled battles and close brushes with death have lifted their lives out of the ordinary. If cancer is a metaphor, as Sontag suggests, it is not just a metaphor for death and dying. The message coming from the cancer survivors is that their terrible disease has a capacity to inspire hope as well as dread...
...drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming "a drone in three years," sated with early success. Susan Sontag is another victim of celebrity. Princeton feminist Diana Fuss's output is "just junk -- appalling...