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“national cohesion and national welfare.” As it later waffled onnStalinist terror, TNR even justified fascist violence as annecessary means to end internal strife and disunity.nWhat we have seen in this half-century is not only a crisis ofnauthority but a crisis of authority in relation to mind and “thenright exercise of its mental powers,” as Lionel...

181 CHRONICLESn* Under the Brezhnev Doctrine, all Communist countriesnare off limits to any Western democratic influences. However,nunder the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism, the West andnnon-Marxist Third World are a free-fire zone for Sovietnpenetration and subversion.n* Why are “wars of national liberation” or “liberation”nmovements only legitimate against non-Marxist countries andnillegitimate and counterrevolutionary if directed against Sovietncolonies? A...

20 / CHRONICLESnintellectual health, is the effect upon the would-be teachersnwhose survival is determined at a Darwinian level. That manynbear false witness is inevitable, even should witnessing count.nNor do I necessarily impute deliberate intellectual subversion,nthough young professors are like the rest of us—human and soncapable of willful distortion. Intentionally or not, they put thenword at...

phrase E=MC^ is also rapidly becoming tedious. The grammarnof knowledge — old or new — is by its nature inevitablyncliche since it formulates an elementary ground which we mustnshare in order to encounter the truth of things. It is only whennsuch elementary formulation may be assumed in our conversationnthat we are free to move beyond...

221 CHRONICLESnvocabulary among those babies as they come into theirnlanguage. We have come through the Shirleys and Scarlets andnJennifers. Next semester’s roll will say what we have come to.nBut their papers will no doubt still be full of “in my opinions,”nour moment of history having so heavily emphasized as if anfundamental truth that, in a...

241 CHRONICLESnthat an academic can be just as wicked an infighter as thenjournalist, Ronald R. Butters, editor of American Speech, isnpleased to denounce “the inanities of such know-nothing ‘popngrammarians’ as Edwin Newman, Theodore Bernstein, WilsonnFollett, and especially that vitriolic, sophomoric poseur,nJohn Simon.”nAlso noticeable from this quotation is more than a hint ofnthe special hatred linguists...

obscures the judgment of some linguists.nEven more important, some major arguments employed bynthe linguists show deep weaknesses at closer examination. Fornexample, linguists often attempt to refute a language critic’sncondemnation of a locution by pointing out that it has a longnhistory of use in the language. If Simon condemns the use ofnthe pronoun form / when...

2BI CHRONICLESnno other relevant material on Mitchell’s views, Daniels informsnus that “we can [now] appreciate the idiocy of RichardnMitchell’s notion that the holocaust was primarily a languagenproblem.”nEven worse than this kind of distortion is the linguist’sninsensitivity to the tone of the language critics, especially ofnNewman, Simon, and Mitchell. This tone has been obvious tonnonlinguist reviewers,...

have rejected it to satisfy the demands of their discipline.nOtherwise, how can the language critics’ satire go unrecognized,nwith its typical devices of humor, wit, hyperbole,ncaricature, mimicry, and persona or mask?nSecond, the linguists seem very proud of their relatively newnand growing “science” and seem to feel resentful when thengeneral public ignores them by putting its faith...

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30 / CHRONICLESnWhat sort of inner person, I wondered, was behind all thatn”turning, turning, / In mazes of heat and sound”? Apparentlyna tantalizing and very human bundle of contradictions:nHer worldly delight in social pleasures and activitiesn(said Sir Sidney Lee) seemed to be combined with anmystical conviction of their hoUowness and futility. Innspite of marked business...

personal, unique voice constantly engaging the reader, mindnand spirit, with the luminous intelligence of the author. Surely,nI thought, Hobbes merits a place on the literary scholar’snbookshelf as well as the general reader’s, in the company ofnAusten, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, ofnMeredith, Hardy, and Galsworthy, not to mention suchnmoderns as Virginia Woolf, Rose...

Lesse Greeke of 1944, including threenpages of untranslated Latin from thenhand of Edward VI. There are goodnpages on Valla and Erasmus. But muchnof the book is derivative and careless,nespecially parts that may reasonably benimputed to Jardine. Both scholars havendone better work apart.nThe Introduction announces, “It isnour contention that teachers and studentsnof the humanities today need...

to disagree with him. For example, PaulnJohnson, in reviewing Hook’s memoirsnfor the Washington Times, praises himnwithout qualification. Never does Johnsonnmention that some of the mostnprovocative parts of Out of Step arenHook’s defense of socialism and a “democraticnform of secularization.” Thisnomission, on Johnson’s part, seemsnstrange, coming as it does from a selfdeclarednChristian conservative historian.nPerhaps Johnson agrees...

moved from its original inspiration, tontransmit itself to the next generation.”nThe failure of Victorian morality tontranscend its generation shows itself nowherenso clearly as in the Stephen family:nLike most British intellectuals of hisnday, Stephen “had no doubt that anythingnwhich shook the family, such asnadultery, must shake society”; his children,nVirginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell,njoined with other Bloomsbury...

USSR, while only 6,500 Soviets camenhere. In 1976 (before Afghanistan),n66,000 Americans went to the SovietnUnion, and 12,000 Soviets visited us.nThe numbers do not tell the wholenstory — the Soviet visitors are exclusivelynparty members who’ve been rigorouslynchecked, or experts held in line by keepingntheir family in the Soviet Union ornby other behavior-modifying ploys.nAmerican visitors are for...

40 / CHRONICLESnLetter FromnEcuadornby Geoffrey WagnernThe Middle of the WorldnChimborazo, Cotopaxi, Cayambe, Antisana,nTungurahua — the jaw-cracking,neye-chart names thunder from the mapnwith the grandeur of the 6,000-meter,nsnow-capped volcanoes most of themnare, staking out the spine of the EcuadoriannAndes, some of the world’s finestnscenery. Indeed, no fewer than 11 suchnnevados may be seen on a clear day...

swimming, racquetball, sauna, horses,nchapel, and cock-fighting pit. The genialnmanager, quite the tallest Ecuadorian Inhave seen, showed us to a large doublenroom costing $20 (without meals). Onnour last visit he had left and the placengone into decline, being for some reasonnoverrun by a group of German schoolchildren.nStriking out west towards Ecuador’snPacific coast may depend on the...

421 CHRONICLESnthink, potato soup but paw soup (viz.npig’s trotter). Steaks and eggs abound,nfrequently in combination. Hot toastedncorn — mats — is served, unpopped,nwith aperitifs. Remarkably inexpensivenChilean wines form the staple of mostnwine lists. It is not a great gastronomy. Itnis great countryside. We settle for that.nGeoffrey Wagner is a retired City CollegenEnglish professor who travels...

get handguns they’d switch to morendeadly sawed-off rifles or shotguns.)nSo, as I said, Florida’s experiment isnworth a try. I do have one suggestion,nthough. It’s a mushy, liberal. Great Societynkind of proposal, probably just anreflex left over ftom the bad company Inkept in the 60’s, but I can’t help it.nLook here: the price of a good...

^:^:-“^neach to come up with — no, not designsn(how vulgar!)—with ideas.nAt first, Lloyd’s redevelopment committeenwas a little nervous. After all, thenYale master’s-course graduate’s mainnclaim to fame was a little frightening. ButnMr. Graham was reassuring: “I don’tnknow what you’ll get,” he is reported tonhave told the committee with the kind ofn^•iH’-h – •*•’ ••*’• •••••.”••nmn”‘^fS’: iiUiff:n”^]...

Letter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernYou Can Lead a Horse to WaternI came across Mitch Snyder’s name thenother day. Remember Mitch? He madenthe news first about three years ago,nwhen, as head of the Community fornCreative Non-Violence (CCNV), anWashington-based “homeless rights”ngroup, he spoke out against the indignitiesnperpetrated against 61 -year-old JessenCarpenter, who “froze to death in thenshadow...

461 CHRONICLESnbaldish comedian, alternately harassednand humored by a judge and a bailiff,nattempts to raise his right hand, swear onna Bible, remove his derby, and hold ontonhis cane. Curly brought to his befuddlementnneither the pathos of Chaplin nornthe wit of Fields — although he is unquestionablynlikable, decent, and competent.nMr. Warhol’s genius, meanwhile, wasnasserted with casual authority...

SCREENnWhy Tell ItnStraight?nby Katherine DaltonnMatewan; written and directed bynJohn Sayles; Cinecom EntertainmentnGroup.nIn 1920 Matewan was a little town onnthe western edge of Mingo County,nWest Virginia, right on the Kentuckynborder. It was a town owned and run bynthe Stone Mountain Coal Company,nand when the miners tried to bring in thenunion, the county in general and Matewannin...

481 CHRONICLESnthe cliches dredged out of John Sayles’snhead.nThey don’t know it, and never bothernto try to know it, but still there is somenpower to Appalachia that keeps drawingnthe moviemakers back. Perhaps it’s becausenAppalachia is another world nestlednright here in the midst of our own, anwhole other culture, in some ways asnforeign and as far away...

pate as retrospectively inevitable. Nancynleaves both men in the lurch; but Coleman,nwho was the only voice of reasonninasmuch as he was the lone disbelievernin a throng of Buckhorn’s followers, joinsnthe fold.nHoly Ghosts is predominantly an ensemblenwork, and most of the first act isnused to introduce the motley crew.nThese include an ex-Sunday schoolnteacher dismissed after 20...

SO I CHRONICLESnPOP CULTUREnFuture Shock?nby Gary S. VasilasbnThis won’t be easy. But, it may be thenfuture, at least according to a number ofnscience-fiction writers collectively knownnas the “cyberpunks.” More disturbingly,nthere seems to be a number of scientistsnand researchers who agree. Hang on.nThe first part of the word cyberpunksncomes from cybernetics, a term coinednby Norbert Wiener...

computers “think” by developing rulesnand procedures (heuristics) that structureninformation from a data base intonhuman-like knowledge. AI is somethingnof an analog to human thinking. Thenneurocomputer people are actuallynbuilding silicon chips that are an analognto the neural networks within our brainsnand are devising the procedures to enablenthem to work as such. AI can benthought of as two...

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4/CHRONICLESnA recent report issued by the NationalnEndowment for the Humanities raisesnserious questions about what our childrennare learning in public schools.nWhat Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?ncompiled by Assistant Secretary of EducationnChester Finn and ColumbianTeachers College Professor Diane Ravitch,nis based on a cultural literacyntest administered to nearly 8,000 highnschool juniors.nThe study revealed that only 31npercent of the students...

way of a munitions train. Unable tonget up from his cross-legged sittingnposition in the middle of the tracks fastnenough, Mr. Wilson lost both his legs.n”With all the evidence we have,” saidnhis wife, “there was some attempt tonrun the train at the protestors. It isninexcusable to let this go by.”nIt is now an unalienable right tonconduct...

6 / CHRONICLESnPERSPECTIVEnTYRANNY IN A GOOD CAUSE by Thomas Flemingnemocracy or Republic? might well be the title of thenD debate between liberals and conservatives on thennature of the American political system. (In the view ofnsome liberals, the easiest way to spot a conservative is thenhabit of referring to America as a republic.) Democracy, innthe strict...

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rural Nebraskans—or vice versa. The triumph of representationnwithout federahsm may be seen in such inspirednexperiments as Prohibition and, although the situation is anbit more complicated, Roe v. Wade. While the SupremenCourt is not an elected body, it is chosen by the Presidentnand approved of by the Congress. As such, it is supposed tonrepresent the national...

In the course of his great work—and it is a disgrace thatnAmerican pohtical thinkers are so littie famihar withnit—Althusius repeats Aristotle’s arguments that man is ansocial animal and, like Aristotle, begins his discussion ofnsocial organization with the family and proceeds from therento corporations, cities, provinces, and the empire. The keynto the whole matter, as Carl...

10 / CHRONICLESnThe He de Francenby Jean Tardieun(translated by Peter Dale)nI wandered along beside your facenpoplars canals and palaces toonacross the roofs the clouds’ racenyou spoke low I listened to you.nI wandered near your banks and strandsnyou were only a smile a sleepnyour rocks your storms your handsnfrom dream to sun would sweepnLoved by a...

12 / CHRONICLESnfact, both propositions are nonsense because the realn”original intent” of the Constitution (even with the 14thnAmendment added) is not a matter in which there is anynfederal power, nor any judicial power except in the mostnlimited sense.nThe simple truth is that the Constitution of our forefathersnis not very compatible with the commercial progressivismnby-way-of-federal-power of...

of the legislatures of the states. It determines the curriculumnand student assignments of their public schools, the rules ofnproceedings in their criminal courts, the speed limits onntheir highways, and the number of parking spaces for thenhandicapped in their public and private buildings. Wenobserve the strange spectacle of legislatures required to passnlaws according to specifications drawn...

14 / CHRONICLESnemotions, ideologies, and fantasies, but principles. Theynhad a modest hope that by the successful operation ofnrepublican principles they might provide an example andninspiration for other peoples. Nothing could have beennfurther from them than the spirit of making the world “safenfor democracy.” If someone had blathered “globalndemocracy”—the official rhetoric of the chosen intellectualsnof the...

mankind. The will of the people under the Constitutionncan only mean the deliberate sense of the political communities,nthat is the states, that make up the United States,nexpressed through the republican mechanisms that arenestablished. This suggests that judicial review must benrelegated to a subsidiary role.nOriginal intent, properly speaking, is a legal and not anconstitutional idea. The...

the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.nHeld in the Year of 1788, and Which Finally Ratified thenConstitution of the United States, which was printed innBoston according to the will of the state legislature and bynWilliam White, Printer to the Commonwealth. I have,nthanks to friends in New England, the pleasure of owning ancopy of this unusual...

181 CHRONICLESnapproval of the Constitution in Massachusetts is that itnamounted to the proximate cause of that decision. In thenlast 50 years alternative explanations of these events andntheir connection have been advanced; but once refined withnobservations on the link between social unrest and bothnAnti-Federalism and Federalism, the traditional explanationnnow seems thoroughly vindicated. New Englanders hadnbelonged to...

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20 / CHRONICLESnand prospective spokesman for the Anti-Federalist cause—nuntil his son dies, his supporters in Boston turn Federalist,nand John Hancock decides to be a hero one time more.nSpeaking of proposed amendments, he affirms the onenwhich provides “that it be explicitly declared that all powersnnot expressly delegated to Congress are reserved to thenseveral states, to be...

Hancock no opposition to his reelection and, in addition,nthe possibihty that he might (if George Washington werenunavailable) become President of the United States. Hancocknappears to have become a good Federalist in no time atnall. His true motives and perceptions in these rapid developmentsnremain a mystery at the heart of the Massachusettsnconvention. Clearly he knew that...

221 CHRONICLESnare a staple of these exchanges. But they are set alongsidenfresh imagery, fragments of irritation, candor, hyperbole,nunderstatement, sarcasm, drollery, and a suggestion ofnassorted parables working at the back of the minds of mostnof the delegates who gathered that winter in Boston tondecide the fate of the document made in Philadelphianduring the previous summer. We...

24 / CHRONICLESnon the grounds that, as Roger Sherman said, “It is unnecessary.nThe power of Congress does not extend to the Press,”nthe fact is that they were well aware that rights exist by thenpermission of power.n”The framers,” wrote Leonard Levy in his classic work onnthe Fifth Amendment, “were . . . skeptical of the values...

speak for the defense, was so insulted by the judges henwithdrew from the case. Both the tribunal and the press—nand Congress—sought to prove the vanquished Confederacynguilty of the plot. In the end of a proceeding managedneven worse than the Soviets later exhibited, two men andnMrs. Surrat were hanged, three sentenced to life at hardnlabor, one...

26 / CHRONICLESnobserves in the Iliad, “The fool only believes what hasnhappened.”nIn the first effort to topple an American President, thenaverage man seemed right: It failed. But the impeachmentnof Andrew Johnson failed by only one vote; the Presidentnwon only the right to dismiss those whom he appointed,nwithout asking the permission of the Senate. Had he...

to run again for office. This was accepted as an abdication,nthough other Presidents had made similar decisions withoutnprovoking such a description. The propaganda use of thenterm “abdication” introduced the idea that the presidency ofnthe United States can be, somehow, attainment of thenpurple without the consent of the people (the people beingndefined as those who support...