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...Reader Mark Rogers [Dec. 21], who wrote, "If the choice is between death and life under the Kremlin, I choose the latter, along with the right to oppose such tyranny," will find that under the Soviet system of government, Mr. Rogers would enjoy no such rights. That is the point...
...philosophy. Great art, says he, is sufficient unto itself. Nabokov is interested in words: what they sound like, and how they can be arranged. With words, the artist creates his own imaginary world, a world without values, ideas, or social relevance. For Nabokov, literature is a detective game: The reader tries of solve the word code and enter the imaginary world. Nabokov describes the sensual pleasure he finds in art: a certain tingling feeling in the spinal cord, he says. His cowering pupils are told over and over again that the social, cultural, or intellectual context of a work...
...those Wisconsin areas with newspapers which did oppose Senator McCarthy--with news analysis and editorials--saw a steady erosion of the Senator's support. Contrary to Bayley's assumptions, however, this bit of detail fails to show the strong guiding role of the press. Rather than the press, determining reader opinion, readers could have guided the press, or made judgments independent...
...bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse oblige: Sesame and Lilies and Seven Lamps of Architecture and some 30 other volumes instructing his countrymen on how to think about art, man and socialism. His writing now seems overabundant; but in an age when color photography and its reproduction in books were lacking, there was a reason for his word...
...long life (he died in 1900), and during his periods of sanity he liked to talk babytalk. His biographer is indulgent, however, and her tone seems correct. Ruskin's passion, after all, was to teach Truth, and not once in 80 years did he doubt-for a modern reader, this is the wonder-that he knew what Truth...