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...most academics are too sublimating, is Kott too abominating? Characteristically he keeps his intellectual balance on the brink of nihilism by reaching out, not to Aristotle but to a Resistance fighter named Albert Camus. In paraphrase of Camus, Kott writes: "Prometheus' greatness is his revolt without hope." Like a banner he majestically raises Camus' fine and all-important distinction: "Being deprived of hope is not despairing." No 20th century margin shaver could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary. Melvin Maddocks
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Sarah Brink, harpsichordist, in recital. April...
What saves Moravia from post-Romantic banality is a special feeling for women as the quintessentially damned. It is as if, by depicting the life givers at the brink of spiritual death, he has dramatized for himself all the bleakness of modern existence...
...time when the masculine hero is joining other endangered species, Hoagland looks to the circus, "the last place left where somebody can teeter on the brink of death and the crowd won't yell 'Jump!'" He finds his hero in Gunther Gebel-Williams, an animal trainer with an instinctive ability to orchestrate big cats into tawny fugues. To Hoagland, Gebel-Williams seems "to live in a state of direct gaiety." Unlike Clyde Beatty, for example, he does not conquer his animals crudely but controls them with a lover's touch...
...they have. With the expansion of the Common Market from six to nine members-and, more important, the breaking of the French-German deadlock that paralyzed it through the De Gaulle era-Europe now seems at what Italian Author Altiero Spinelli describes as "the brink of a moment of creative tension...