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...intellectuals" assembled in Manhattan at a "Theater for Ideas." The question for discussion was "The End of the Rationalist Tradition?"-and the answer seemed obvious. Pronounced Poet Robert Lowell: "The world is absolutely out of control now, and it's not going to be saved by reason or unreason." Said Author Leslie Fiedler: "Reason, although dead, holds us with an embrace that looks like a lovers' embrace but turns out to be rigor mortis. Unless we're necrophiles, we'd better let go." Intoned Norman Mailer: "Somewhere, something incredible happened in history-the wrong guys...
Cioran contends that the only common ground between men-believers and nonbelievers alike-is the illogical temptation to exist, to resist the acceptance of nothingness. The difficult duty of man then becomes to combat both his doubts and certitudes, and to hurl himself toward a silent, detached state of unreason. He sees the philosopher's task not as pointing out the truth but rather as showing the way toward freedom through acceptance of futility, the only tenable stance for the conscious man. "After the banality of the abyss, what miracles in being!" Cioran writes. "To exist is a habit...
...progressing into an "Age of Unreason," said the columnist, commentator and quondam politician. Its heroes include "Norman Mailer and a couple of children in tennis shoes deciding to levitate the Pentagon"; its politicians include such men as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who thinks that "a President with too much power is a President without Schlesinger at his side"; its liberal economics lean to the quaint axiom that "there is some virtue in elongating the distance between where a dollar is collected and where it is spent...
...unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain's ill-fated prewar efforts to placate Adolf Hitler, Britain's weekly The Economist fumed: "Munich has once before been a synonym for the unsuccessful appeasement of unreason. It may have become so again...
Honolulu in 1931, a train of events that was to lead to murder and the crass mishandling of justice. As a crime story, the Massie case had everything; it was one of those lurid combinations of violence and unreason that not only command horrified attention at the time they happen but make for compelling reading when reconstructed later. Peter Van Slingerland, a freelance journalist, retells the case with the crisp assurance of a good crime reporter. He claims to have done even more-more than the authorities were able to do at the time. He identifies the man who killed...