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Like many Latin American writers, Paz has political credentials. He served for a time as Mexico's ambassador to India but resigned in 1968 to protest the authorities' killing of students during an antigovernment demonstration. In the 1930s Paz was a Marxist. Today communist holdouts regard him as a conservative largely because he has become a critic of "simplistic and simplifying ideologies of the left." His equally sharp disapproval of the rigid right has put him at the lonely center, where his poetry has taken on its deeply personal and moral tone...
...said "If we shining White Anglos knew more about the fact that Columbus was Italian, we celebrate the holiday less," then Mr. Vellucci would have had good cause to accuse people like myself of harboring anti-Italian prejudices. However, I did not. I therefore regard Mr. Vellucci's comments to The Crimson as remarkably asinine and uninformed. My interview with The Crimson contained nothing directed against Italian-Americans...
...find it hard to imagine such a society, not because it was so cruel -- in that regard, pre-Columbian Mexico was no worse than 20th century Europe with its wars and concentration camps -- but because its cruelty, as Paz points out in his catalog essay, was indissolubly part of its "senseless and sublime" theological and moral system. "The Mesoamerican vision of the world and of man is shocking. It is a tragic vision that both stimulates and numbs me. It does not seduce me, but it is impossible not to admire it." So might some Russian of the 3rd millennium...
...highly emotional controversy over an individual's right to die, the highest court in the land has taken a strict stand. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court declared that government has a legitimate interest in preserving life without regard to its quality. But citizens of Florida can largely ignore that ruling. Three weeks ago, that state's supreme court invoked the "privacy" provision of the Florida constitution to say the state should generally stay out of decisions to remove the feeding tubes of incompetent and incurable patients...
Kennedy was a clever President. I still regard him with great respect. He understood that in spite of the American advantages, the missiles we had already installed could strike New York City, Washington and other centers...