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...though, such houses as Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Marubeni have lost some of their heroic luster under a rain of charges that they have fueled Japanese inflation by engaging in widespread land and commodity speculation. A government study released this month accuses the six biggest trading houses of spending more than $2.5 billion in the past 18 months to buy up and hoard scarce supplies of land and such commodities as rice, wool, silk and soybeans. Prices of all these things have risen, and though the trading houses deny the charges, consumer tempers have gone up, too. Recently, carpenters who were...
...confirm it even with one's own agony." What the tragic hero knows at last is that he is in rebellion against life itself-against the very terms of human mortality. No wonder the tragic hero became obsolete even in his own time, replaced as a heroic prototype by the crafty, adjustable Odysseus-a survivor who was excessive only at compromise, the perfect artist of the possible...
...investigative days to the present, the President's strength has been based in Middle America, not in Cambridge. But with the exception of Secretary Brennan, who, impartial observers acknowledge, embodies the finest traditions of American labor with his impassioned defense of free speech, his pearl-handled Derringer and his heroic oppostion to imperialistic wars, the President's recent appointments have been Harvard men -- Richardson, Weinberger, and most recently Dunlop. Few of these pointy-headed intellectuals can park a bicycle straight, and most if not all of them put on their pants one leg at a time...
...political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael has become just another opinionator, more fiery and more skillful than most, but without any broad vision to separate her from the herd...
...which Picasso lived -that everything really pleasurable or painful to the senses or central to one's social experience could be rendered in painting and sculpture-has disappeared. That certainty about the inclusiveness and eloquence of art was shared to some extent by every figure in the heroic years of modernism from (roughly) 1900 to 1940, by Joyce no less than by Picasso, by Matisse and Breton as well as by Stravinsky, Braque, Pound and Magritte. When it faltered, art suffered a slow leakage and underwent that loss of possibility and (worse) necessity that nearly everyone involved with...