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...Khaldun, and later, like-minded prophets, did not calculate that the cycles could be broken, that history could simply veer off in another direction. As Journalist-Critic A.J. Liebling noted, Ibn-Khaldun's determinism was refuted by "the vigor of Renaissance thought, the technological advances and the discovery of the New World...
...voice, through the stark interior of a working man's kitchen, through the whiskered, burnt faces of workers discussing politics in a bar. Even Barrera's face seems to change with the chronological shifts in the movie, from the full-boned, clean-shaven, clear-eyed vigor of his revolutionary days to the meticulously-combed, vainly-mustachioed, narrow-eyed shiftiness of his union leadership. Such details help the film to capture a mood of quiet despair, a despair that speaks all the more eloquently because it is woven into the film's texture free of any staging or any rehearsed utterances...
...home is Administration's bland record on consumerism, the appointment last year of Richard O. Simpson, 44, to head the new Consumer Product Safety Commission caused no great expectations. But Simpson confounded the skeptics by taking on the job of protecting the public against dangerous merchandise with surprising vigor and independence. The CPSC has just raised loud protests from traditionalists by banning all firecrackers beginning next week - thus muting the Fourth of July. The commission is now scrimmaging with the management of the National Football League over whether to bar artificial turf in stadiums; falling on plastic turf, players...
...speech ran on like an early epistle of Saint Paul, full of the vigor of liberal martyrdom. I never did jump...
...experience seems to have occurred while he was gazing at a portrait of St. Sebastian, body pierced with arrows. Years later, with typically gorgeous effrontery, he posed for a photo in which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action...