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...compelling phenomenon called machismo. In its simplest form, machismo is the gaudy bravado of the bullfighter, the outdoor he-manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength, and heroic revolutionaries into ruthless tyrants. Says the Mexican poet Octavio Paz: "One word sums up the aggressiveness, insensitivity, invulnerability and other attributes of the macho: power. It is force without discipline...
...could claim in all fairness that James exhibited a manic-depressive tendency. But, as his biographer Ralph Barton Perry notes, a potentially dangerous proclivity became transformed into a benign trait in the total, integrated personality. The extreme variability of moods gave James a quick sympathy for both tough-minded physicists and tender-minded religionists, guilt-ridden prophets and buoyant natural...
Though James excelled in the hunt for values, he was less successful at attaining coherency. This failure caused him considerable anguish. It was primarily a personal trait against which he struggled and not a necessary consequence of his philosophic doctrine. One the contrary, James felt that the formal doctrine--over the long run--contained a theory of truth as rigorous as that of any positivist. But, in addition to the demand for rigor, it stresses man's freedom and ultimate moral responsibility. If it were not for his optimism, one might call James an existentialist. And the optimistic style...
...lyrebird. In his country's bustling art world, he has the widest range and the most lyrical touch. "The common denominator of all of us Australian painters," he says, "is a concern with the figure in a landscape. It seems a peculiarly Australian trait, and I think it gives a poignancy to all our work...
...notes had their problems. The English translator, true to his Stowe, wrote "niggers" for "negri" (which means Negroes in Italian). "This is the usual meeting place of all the niggers," read the notes, thereby offending everybody. Most Americans are now aware that Negroes consider Uncle Tomism their most regressive trait, and it was surprising to see the long-suffering old quisling revived once again as liberty's champion...