Word: manichaeans
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...Schonberg-the-Savior or Schonberg-the-Antichrist. And so the apostolic succession of innovative geniuses passed from Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Schonberg (or the Devil) and then to sleep. The common antinomy sets Schonberg against Stravinsky, coalescing all music into two schools in a priceless display of Manichaean passion. Schonberg is seen as the seminal prime mover, and Stravinsky [and to a lesser extent Berg and Bartok] are seen as creative but dead-end derelicts...
...dramatic terms, Ghelderode is the antithesis of Brecht. Ghelderode trusted in instinct; Brecht worshiped intellect. Brecht called for a didactic theater of ideology; Ghelderode scorned ideologies and celebrated the theater of magic, spectacle and mystery. He saw all men divided and torn on a Manichaean battleground of darkness and light, flesh and spirit, and he never lost his conviction that they danced at the end of fate's string. If his plays are sometimes episodic and full of antic despair, they also display the probing gallantry of quests. Ghelderode could say with his hero in Christophe Colomb: "Farewell, America...
...took five years in the writing of Gog (apart from a biography of President Harding and a historical study of Prohibition), has not quite made his purpose clear. Speculation suggests that in Gog and Magog he is trying to make explicit the evil and good in man, a Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A more subtle Jungian notion is that Gog (i.e., man) is not only himself but also the sum of the past of the whole race. The naked amnesiac on the shores of Scotland must relive the whole...
...tells his fellow blacks: "Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men wherever they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets." The colonized races are "the slaves of modern times." He defines the colonial world as a Manichaean one where the settler regards the native as the "quintessence of evil" and the native wants "to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible." The native peoples must not only riot or strike but employ skilled guerrilla techniques...
...hero, instead of taking up the task of building . . . higher and deeper rituals wherein alone personality will be achieved and our cheaper conformities or etiquettes restore themselves to sense." Even in as Roman Catholic a writer as Graham Greene, Critic Lynch finds "a subtle if unconscious demonstration of the Manichaean way"-especially in the novel, The End of the Affair, in which the heroine renounces her lover and dedicates herself to God. Lynch notes that there is no relation between her divine and her human love. "The divine love is in no way achieved in the same...