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...Sontag's brilliant book contains essays on Bergman and Godard, the pornographic imagination, the relation of theatre and film, the state of the nation, and E. M. Cioran, a modern aphoristic French philosopher. Two of the essays, the avant-garde "Aesthetics of Silence" and "Trip to Hanoi," rank among the most important intellectual documents of the sixties...
...radically changed, and it scares me. I want to save my soul as a subject of the American Empire 1969, but it isn't an easy fight and the outcome is in doubt. "Salvation becomes almost a mundane, inevitable goal when things are so bad, really intolerable," Susan Sontag says in an essay entitled "What's Happening in America (1966)." Salvation-artistic and moral-is what Sontag discusses in a complex yet ballsy way in Styles of Radical Will, a collection of essays written since...
...Trip to Hanoi" illustrates how Vietnam has pushed intellectuals, artists. and students out of their limited enclaves and forced them to wrestle with political concerns. Sontag writes that she shared the archetypal left-leaning American's dilemma over Vietnam: although she is "passionately opposed to the American aggression," she had been unable to incorporate her convictions in her work. Awareness without the ability to act on it. (And that, comrades, is where we live...
Eventually Sontag discovers that the Vietnamese politeness is utterly unlike American social conventions, which hide the inner self. She writes that their sincerity is "a mode of ethical aspiration." Similarly, despite the way Americans are trained to discredit heroism, she realizes that the nobility and bravery of the Vietnamese are as real as they seem...
...Harold Hughes (D-Iowa) appeared at a teach-in at Princeton Tuesday night along with Carl Davidson, former national chairman of SDS. A rally yesterday attended by 1000 to 1500 featured Susan Sontag. Lowenstein, and Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N.J.) Last night a candlelight service was held for the war dead on the steps of the State Capital in Trenton. University employees were allowed the day off with...