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When Mann writes in this way of Goethe and Tolstoy, he is not arguing that they simply and naturally kept to the middle of the road. On the contrary, he sees them as men who spent most of their lives and will power struggling to discipline passionate "animal" qualities. Out...
Liquor in the Jukebox. Konstantin ("a playwright must be a politician") Simonov made his source studies when he toured the U.S. last year under the auspices of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass...
As free-enterprising businessmen, their hardheaded purpose was to make money. But as internationalists, they were well aware of the political implications. By making the oil available to all the world (Russia would be able to buy as cheaply as anyone else), they would do their part to clear the...
The conflict is unnecessary, says Father D'Arcy. After ranging from Aristotle to Jung, he echoes the traditional Catholic synthesis between Greek and biblical elements, concluding that Christian love must be both selfish and selfless:
From the gilt edged ivory towers that line Harvard Square, a music lover almost invariably takes a rather lenient view toward musicians who either laid out a welcome mat for the Nazis or at best knuckled under. "Art and Politics don't have any connection with one another" is the...