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...Pusey's letter was most unfortune. Even John Powers, who shared Pusey's feelings that the Patriots should be k?et away from Cambridge, was one of the disappointed people. "It was as if Pusey went up to the Patriots with a pistol in his back pocket and a snowball in ??s hand, and threw the snowball." Powers explained...
Since the publication this fall of a translation of Humanisme et Terreur, a book scarcely available till now even in French, we are better able to locate the sharp edge of Merleau-Ponty's perception. The immediate object evoking his response was Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon . This account of the Moscow trials of the 1930's. presented as fiction, appeared in 1946. Along with his argumentation in The Yogi and the Commissar. Koestler's novel was taken as the expression, and for some, the justification of disillusion and inwardness, a mood then pervasive among Western intellectuals...
...sistance in Boulez's continuing campaign to rediscover Debussy is the London Royal Opera's new setting of Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy's only opera (1902). Debussy believed that in opera "nothing should impede the progress of the drama-all musical development not called for by the words is a mistake." In his rigorously faithful setting of Maeterlinck's moonstruck play about love and fratricide, Debussy ruled out full-blown arias as well as vocal ensembles, and restricted the singers largely to declamation, meanwhile raising the orchestra to a new importance as the main commentator...
...Lieut. Calley stands indicted as the heinous mastermind of the whole My Lai incident. In the interest of judicial equity, however, shouldn't Nixon, Johnson, et al., be codefendants...
...adulatory biographer like Theodore Besterman is just the further aggravation that a resenter of Voltaire's cocksure reformism does not need. Mercilessly detailed, Besterman's book is a scholarly but unabashed case of hero-worship by the English founder and director of the Institut et Musée Voltaire in Geneva and editor of the 107 volumes of Voltaire's Correspondence. Besterman's zeal can nearly do the impossible: make his scintillating subject dull. Yet Voltaire survives even his sedulous admiration-perhaps because no age can help finding a man fascinating who himself was so fascinated...