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Dreadful Joy. There has been a kind of five-phase decline of religion via pseudo religion, as Fitch sees it. Man began with God, "the only true faith," and then switched to the surrogate faiths of Nature, Humanity, Society (in the form of nationalism) and finally the Self. Today self...
Before it went bankrupt, the Self was a proud and preening god. Nearly a century ago, Walt Whitman trumpeted: "I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake'...
News of Rayburn's commitment soon leaked out. When Missouri's Clarence Cannon got the word, he turned purple. "Unconscionable!" he shouted, and rushed off to the Speaker's Room to object: "A dangerous precedent!"* Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support to the Smith-Colmer...
It's his income." But sometimes she finds it all a dreadful bore: living in a museum, knocking about in county tweeds, keeping the upper lip stiff as she rakes a fresh batch of manure into those horrid little mushrooms in the cellar.
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR. Hiroshima rises again as a redeeming love in this dreadful, beautiful film by France's Alain Resnais.