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...enough. Corde invites aggravated assault when his fury at the city overflows into two articles in Harpers. He blends a bit of impressionistic journalism and intellectual freewheeling to blast Chicago on nearly every count--the courts, the jails, the neighborhoods--everything. Piling on top of it all Hegel. Vico and Rilke don't make it any more palatable. If the trial did not convince them, the articles did: Albert Corde is a poetic jackass...
...people, have birth, growth, periods of vigor, then decline and death. Do societies obey that pattern? The idea of decadence, of course, implies exactly that. But it seems a risky metaphor. Historians like Arnold Toynbee, like the 14th century Berber Ibn-Khaldun and the 18th century Italian Giovanni Battista Vico, have constructed cyclical theories of civilizations that rise up in vigor, flourish, mature and then fall into decadence. Such theories may sometimes be too deterministic; they might well have failed, for example, to predict such a leap of civilization as the Renaissance. Ultimately, the process of decadence remains a mystery...
There are a few bibliographical errors in Mister Tom Keffner's article "Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable" [(November 3, 1976). Beckett's essay "Dante ... Bruno. Vico .. Joyce"] (please note spelling and punctuation) is not "long out print." It appears currently with the other essays originally collected under the title Our Examination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress in James Joyce/Finnegans Wake: A Symposium. New York: New Directions, 1972. "Equally difficult to find" "Whoroscope" and Echo's Bones may be found in Beckett, Samuel. Poems in English. New York: Grove Press, 1962. Michael Haggerty
Wilson begins with a flashback to the year 1725, when a little-known scholar named Giambattista Vico brought out a book based on a rather dazzling notion. Social history, he saw, was not, as man had long conceived it, a mysterious pageant presided over by God. It was, instead, a work of man. Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station...
...VICO retains only a 5% interest in the oil operation, but will share in any future profits. So far there have been no profits. For the fourth year VICO will report another loss next month, between $500,000 and $700,000 on revenues of roughly $900,000. However, some investors obviously believe that VICO, still a small company, will make money. Its stock, which is traded over the counter, has jumped from $3 a share a year ago to $46 last week...