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...which can be applied to Irwin Shaw and Peter Viertel, to the management of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and to almost everybody production. Shaw and Viertel, who wrote "The Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little more than a somewhat melodramatic series of bare repetitions of this concept which, admirable as it may be in itself, requires something more than persistent...
Congress took over the problems of U.S. war strategy last week. As G.O.P. leaders gave defense bills the right of way, committees in both House and Senate began writing their concept of what the biggest peacetime military establishment in the nation's history should look like...
...political philosophy in the first place rejects the absolutes characteristic of the totalitarian Right and the totalitarian Left. It furthermore shuns that political technique intended "to transform one small clique of men into the State." But most crucial of the distinctions marking American-Russian hostility rests with the Madisonian concept disputed by Marx. Douglas elaborates...
Strongly influenced by the 16th Century mystic, Jakob Boehme,* Berdyaev made the cornerstone of his philosophy the concept of what he called "metaphysical freedom." He regarded creativity as man's highest expression of that freedom. Man cannot truly be redeemed, he thought, until he submerges even the problem of his own salvation in creative activity-artistic, intellectual, or in human relations...
Author Gorer's chapters range through opinions on children ("the concept of being a sissy is a key concept for the understanding of American character"); jobs ("the typical patterns of the relationship between American employers and employees can be viewed as stemming from a shared abhorrence of the idea of one man being in overt authority over an equal"); plumbing ("the symbolic and patriotic value of these adjuncts to sanitary and comfortable living has become so great that Americans in foreign countries tend to esteem these alien societies in direct proportion to the number and availability of these amenities...