Word: visions
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Willkie Wrangle. One of the ways Luce meant to realize the American vision was to elect Wendell Willkie President in 1940. Though neither he nor his publications formally endorsed Willkie, all of them gave Willkie substantial aid and comfort. All, that is, except TIME. T. S. Matthews, then TIME'S NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, made repeated fun of Willkie's campaign. "Spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. He still drew curious crowds. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract...
...bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis is not on understanding or even communication but on the need to dominate an outside implacability, like sleeping with a whore. Here again is Norman Mailer in Armies of the Night...
Here is sex, closely linked to creativity, as a solitary descent into an abyss; here is sex as a warlike self-assertion "against much of life and most of society"; here is an onanistic vision of sex as defiance of onanism...
Like any utopian vision, however, the Communist Party's has its flaws. A key point in its scheme is the insistence upon the re-emergence of labor unions. "It is time," the party platform states, "that workers demand that their leaders cease being water boys for the Democratic and Republican bosses. It is time that workers run for public office and begin to build a political party of their...
...Czechoslovakia was "regrettable but necessary." It was easy to see that she was uncomfortable. It was easy to see that she was more interested in black power than in labor unions. Her speech dealt with the "irrelevance of liberalism" to the modern world, but in many ways her communist vision seemed, too, to be irrelevant. Someone asked about Martin Luther King, "He was a tremendous human being," Mrs. Mitchell said sadly. "But I do not accept non-violence as a principle. I am closer to Malcolm X. He stood for freedom...