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...does Kissinger really have a Spenglerian view of Western civilization and its future? Last week, in a conversation with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, Kissinger seemed to be more hopeful than previous reports had suggested. Sitting in an alcove of Cairo's marble-and-alabaster Tahra Palace during his two-day visit with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the Secretary of State conceded that for a historian, the signs might point in the direction of a decline of the West's political systems. But as a statesman, Kissinger emphasized: "I do not accept the decline of the West...
...film was infinitely better, because it was more believable. It is perhaps the best movie ever made about adoleacent alienation and parent-child relationships in modern day America. Those young people should be seen and heard--this is not impossible in a book, either--not abstracted into a Spenglerian Untergang des Abenlandes. Berners can never find his son, because there is nothing left to find in Calisher's descriptions. "Would it be a reversal of the roles between cadaver and child? Would it be--that our children become our cadavers, and we are forced to dance with them?" Berners muses...
More important, Superstar's popularity is a symptom and partial result of the current wave of spiritual fervor among the young known as the Jesus Revolution (TIME cover, June 21). Whether it is a sign of Spenglerian decadence or religious renaissance, there is an obvious yearning to consider Christ not merely as a fellow rebel against worldliness and war, but as history's most persistent and accessible symbol of purity and brotherly love. As a conservative Protestant weekly, Christianity Today, pointed out: "Many Christians have ignored this generation's questions about Jesus. For those who will listen, Superstar tells what...
...attack, Toynbee merely revised some of his broader conclusions. Spengler was all but shot down in flames. The experts demonstrated that he knew almost nothing about Chinese culture, nothing at all about Mexican. His Time Chart, marking off the exact number of years spent by each culture in each Spenglerian phase of its doomed history, was riddled with errors of fact. His parallels between cultures were often forced. All this was true. If the West was declining, it was not doing so according to any rules or laws the book had demonstrated...
...essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points get made...