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...certainly the most important historical portrait in the Western Hemi sphere. Every schoolchild knows it. And, quite frankly, it doesn't matter whether it was literally painted by Gil bert Stuart himself...
...disturbing question," we are told. "May it be...that such deterioration is inherent in democracy?" The answer: while meaning is most ruthlessly manipulated in Russia and China, in democracies where "the assault on language is piecemeal," intellectual freedom enables society to "redeem"language. To do so, in the political sphere at least, entails reasserting the relationship between words and "reality." The obligation for doing so rests with those who live by the "true word"--writers and teachers. They are the ones who must expose the "attack on reason in discourse" that characterizes modern politics...
...SPHERE 79 pages. Norton. $6.95 hardcover...
...rulers of the state and the other propagators of ideology sincerely believe in their ideology and many of them have devoted themselves to it out of long years of inertia, out of ignorance and man's peculiar psychological habit of developing a philosophy to justify his main sphere of activity...
...heady vision; a vision which comes from a world far removed from woman's oppressed sphere in man's socially stratified vale of tears. There is an explosive intrigue in the confluence of these realities. A woman once was wise enough to contemplate woman's struggle in man's hell from the strength of universal vision. Florida Scott-Maxwell was eighty-two and "fierce with reality" when she wrote about the Virgin Mary...