Word: mindlessness
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CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FOR Robert Hughes' extraordinary story on the vicious, mindless congressional attempts to do in the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [COVER STORY, Aug. 7]. Hughes marshals the arguments with rare pellucidity and a cool passion that cuts like a laser. There's a wonderful line in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation when Ouisa says to Paul, who has lost the only copy of his graduation thesis to a mugger, "I hope your mugger reads every word [of it]." I hope the muggers...
...mind ... is created by the body-specifically, by the brain.'' Nonsense. Without experience and memory, the brain is mindless. LEWIS P. LIPSITT Providence, Rhode Island Via E-mail Particularly muddled is the idea that consciousness is just an illusion manufactured by the brain. Any illusion by definition is a conscious phenomenon. Thus the view of consciousness as mere illusion contradicts itself. We must do more than reduce the mind to a mass of brain circuits if we want to understand subjective human experience. DONALD MENDER, M.D. New York City...
...like crisis and decay apply. But we shouldn't concede that all our problems are the fault of pointy-headed liberals and inner-city blacks. And we shouldn't be fooled into believing salvation can be attained without big sacrifices from other Americans. Even if it's true that mindless bureaucracy ruined the public schools and that welfare-state liberals created the underclass, the fact remains that at this point neither problem will be solved without lots of money, more wisely spent. Of course, that money would come from middle- and upper-class taxpayers--potential Republican voters. So much...
...member of Congress, if not the first author, to have a fiction and a nonfiction book published within days of each other. Meanwhile, he has an agent shopping 1945 around Hollywood, where screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) facetiously rejected it as having too much of the loveless sex and mindless violence that Bob Dole deplores...
...anything but "loveless"), a deliriously innocent couple defeats every form of contemporary corruption and emerges in that most blessed of American states-millionaires contentedly cavorting on a beach with their pretty blond baby. Their path to this paradisial state may be strewn with violence, but it is far from "mindless." Its excesses are brilliantly calculated satire...