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...with a heavy surplus of clues, Antonioni cuts them off almost altogether, leaving an amorphous theoretical muddle behind him. Most notably, he tantalizes us with comparative questions about cultural and narrowly-politic revolutionism (the iconoclastic hero is denounced by the students, much as Abbie Hoffman sometimes is, as "bourgeois individualist") but then leaves us hanging...
...Some individualist rightists found the emerging Buckley-Y. A. F. mentality immoral. These individualists, who took up the label "Libertarian" rather quickly, disapproved of communism but did so without much concern for American moral superiority; their feelings were based on anti-statism, and they found no logic in supporting fascism to defeat communism because in their eyes the two were the same. As capitalists they resented Bucklcyite opposition to free trade and Bucklcyite eagerness to escalate taxes and foreign interventions. As Libertarians they were repelled by Bucklcyite eagerness to legislate against pornography, abortion, drugs, and subversion; they believed that...
Beginning in 1961 clusters of Libertarians began breaking away from Buckley. Many saw themselves as American conservatives determined to preserve an individualist, revolutionary American Tradition; most of these saw Buckley as a transplanted European aristocrat whose brand of collectivist capitalism was a kind of feudalism and whose morality began with social norms instead of individual liberty...
Their break from Buckley scattered them, for these were extreme individualists with no convenient enemy like communism to buckle them into a cohesive group. A few, like the Chicago community at the New Individualist Review or the Colorado congregation at Rampart College focused on attacking Buckley as a detractor of real capitalism, the energies of these groups went toward purifying the New Right by reorienting its faith from anti-communism into pro-free enterprise. Two years ago Rampart College pulled up roots and moved to Santa Ana, near the heart of Southern California's infamous Orange County. Since that time...
Triumph of the Will. Is Coco even Coco, or is she really another truly rugged individualist known as Katharine Hepburn? As an actress, Hepburn has spent a lifetime filtering characters through the steely sieve of herself. She does not submit to roles; she rules them, and everyone has grown terribly fond of her special brand of tyranny through personality. That personality is grounded in the New England mind, which has the same flinty character as the New England soil. Her performance is a triumph of the will over intrinsic limitations. If she cannot dance, she kicks; if she cannot sing...