Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this was no surprise to those who came expecting to be surprised, as any Ionesco audience must. It was a kind of Left Bank version of Author Meets the Critics, a personal attack on critics in dramatic form. The three critical Barts filled the hall with pretentious polysyllables, spoke of "costumology," "historicization" and "decorology," told "Ionesco" that he had "points of view with no optical instrument," knowledgeably mentioned "the Being of not-Being and the Not-Being of Being in the Know." For his part, the hero finally turned to the audience and stated his case: "I blame these doctors...
...which must provide a kind of spiritual charter by which all Americans can live together. It is "the constitutional consensus whereby the people acquires its identity as a people and the society is endowed with its vital form . . . its sense of purpose as a collectivity organized for action in history." To Murray, the civic consensus is constructed neither of psychological rationalizations nor of economic interests nor of purely pragmatic working hypotheses. "It is an ensemble of substantive truths, a structure of basic knowledge, an order of elementary affirmations that reflect realities inherent in the order of existence...
...Rationalism. What is the non-Catholic to make of natural law? The Founding Fathers certainly accepted the concept, in one form or another, much of it having reached them through the English common law out of the vast reservoir of Christian tradition. Murray thinks that the Bill of Rights was far less a "piece of 18th century rationalist theory [than] the product of Christian history." In fact, to some it may seem that Murray at times regards the U.S. as having sprung directly from medieval Christianity-he calls St. Thomas "The First Whig"-with hardly any help from Protestantism...
...will without revelation. Many Protestants distrust the whole Scholastic tradition, which they feel keeps man from direct contact with God by interposing an artificial structure of reason. But some Protestant theologians, while far from accepting the classical Catholic version, are ready to underwrite natural law in some form. Reinhold Niebuhr denies the existence of natural law but concedes "certain laws, certain norms and degrees of universality'' (incest, for instance, is almost universally taboo...
Whether this is accomplished by one particular form of government or another, Dr. Bustani declared, is "relatively immaterial...