Category: Imported

well). But, Doyle argues, imperial expansionsnare in reality extremely complicatednand extremely varied in nature.nMoreover, recent researchersnhave tended to underline this complexitynand variety by pointing outnpossible important factors in imperialnexpansion other than the disposition ofn”the metropole” itself to expand:nnamely, the actions of “the periphery,”nand the nature of “the internationalnsystem” which the metropolenconfronts.n”Pericentric” theories of empire findnthe...

Kenneth Lynn proves to be fairer thannJeffrey Myers, whose discussion distortednthe contemporary critical responsento the novel. Myers fails tonpoint out that Northrop Frye, for example,nhad correctly observed that,nlike many attempts by Hemingway innthe form of the novel, this one “mightnhave been a long short story of overwhelmingnpower.” Myers also failed toncite Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps singlenmost...

nominations for the award from EnriconFermi and Albert Einstein. Nuclearnmagnetic resonance (NMR) notnonly clarified the structure of thenatom, but it also opened a promisingnnew technology for medicine, chemistry,nand biology.nDespite his refusal of the positionnwith the Manhattan Project, Rabinmade a significant contribution to thenAmerican war effort during the 1940’s.nHe directed research on radar thatnhelped in the...

said that “there are no cryptographic orncommunications data of any importancento which he did not have access.nIt means that if he gave them everythingnhe could have given them, therenis nothing of importance about thenU.S. Navy they do not know.” AsnWalker himself commented, “If I hadnaccess to it, color it gone.”nPart of the problem in evaluatingnthe...

44 I CHRONICLESnLetter From SouthnCarolinanby Clyde WilsonnAIDS and Public MoralitynThe AIDS plague should be approachedntemperately because, like thenKennedy assassination, it is one ofnthose universally frightening phenomenanthat is likely to ignite the pool ofnvulgarity, hysteria, and kookery thatnlie just below the surface, among thenhigh as well as among the low. Havingncasually followed the pronouncementsnof the government...

sible, for instance, for an excessivencrime rate, they can be considered asngroups when benefits are to be passednaround.) Responsibihty is so diffused itnis unlocatable, which among othernthings renders democratic decisionmakingnimpossible. Thus, diseasenbrought on by an irresponsible group isnto be handled not by taking appropriatenaction against the group responsiblenand protecting the innocent, butnby spending money and...

46 I CHRONICLESnexploitive, irresponsible, self-indulgent,ndeceitful life. Even setting asidenthe perversions, a society that wasnoperating with normal, healthy mechanismsnof self-preservation would havenextruded such a person from its midstnlong before. In a decent society Hudsonnwould not have been tolerated,nmuch less lionized. (Among othernthings, his case should be a lesson tonanyone naive enough to regard then50’s as a...

known reason, say they’re from Philadelphia.nBut South Philadelphia isnclannish to an extreme—ask a SouthnPhiladelphian where he’s from andnhe’ll mention a particular street intersection.nKate is originally from South Philadelphian(no, make that Broad andnOregon) and is used to all this. But mynsuburban sensibilities are being challengednby what looks to me like anmore-than-mild case of anarchy innpractice. The...

48 I CHRONICLESnA tour of South Philadelphia isnincomplete without a weekend eveningnvisit to the Triangle Tavern, a barnand restaurant where the band andnsinger are criminally inept, know it,nand revel in it as much as the crowd.nThe elderly singer takes every opportunitynto sit one out with a drink whilena patron fills in with a song or...

faith in “programs” to “address issues.”nRizzo has faith in himself and, I wouldnguess, believes that the anarchic energynof a city doesn’t make it ungovernable,nit just makes it difficult to governnwithout a strong leader to act as anlightning rod to redirect some of thatnenergy.nWhile I’d like to see that rematch,nit’s only because I consider such politicalncontests...

50 I CHRONICLESnpanionship? Several others stood up,nbut most of us didn’t. The ones whonremained seated raised their palms tonHeaven. Lou, sensing the dilemma,nmade haste to say that we were to praynfor Anna, to let the spirit of the Lordnfill us. Stan, hands to forehead: “I’mnnot sure what this means, but the Lordnhas said to me...

sum (“Killed by a truck on Highway 51nnorth of Nesbitt”). Back in Memphis,nI swung by the Rendezvous for a messnof ribs, said howdy to the ducks at thenPeabody Hotel, returned my rentedncar, and checked into the airport motelnfor an early Sunday morning flight.nJust a routine trip to North Mississippi.nNothing untoward.n13ut the next morning, in the...

521 CHRONICLESnshould have asked him. Like whethernhe’d been married before, and whethernhe spoke Spanish, and how he got thenidea, and how the 25-year-old tooknthe news that she hadn’t made thencut. I wasn’t meant to be a reporter,nobviously.nI thought, too, of a 60 Minutesnspecial I’d seen on the subject of offthe-racknwives. The predictable peoplenhad produced the...

event in a proper context. The explosionntook place in a military facility—none of the plutonium farms wherennuclear warhead material is harvested—thatnis, one of those 27 camouflagednas “civil,” industrial reactors.nThis is clear if only because Sovietnengineers know as well as anyone thatnin reactors of this kind the complexnlabyrinth of zirconium steel tubingndrastically increases the number ofncontrol...

jj^it].n54 I CHRONICLESn100nRobert Wilson and child, in Overture to Act IV of Deafman Glance.nwas able to see.”nWhatever that says about the PulitzernPrize committee, it speaks evennmore about Wilson’s reputation. Thenchain of events becomes particularlynludicrous since it’s next to impossiblento review a Wilson work from its scriptnalone—usually there is none, in thenstandard sense.nWilson’s career is also...

could not be met; so it was canceled,ndespite the efforts of the de Menilnfamily, “one of his principal patrons.”nAs far as can be gathered, the Japanesenand French segments have yet tonbe performed in anything other thannworkshop productions, while somenportions have shown up in the last twonyears at Robert Brustein’s AmericannRepertory Theater in Cambridge, atnLincoln Center,...

56 I CHRONICLESnPOP CULTUREnSummer of thenSnakenby Gary S. VasilashnIn “Life-Line,” a story by Robert A.nHeinlein, a scientist describes a mannin the present as a “space-time event.”nHe explains, “Imagine this space-timenevent which we call Rogers as a longnpink worm, continuous through thenyears, one end at his mother’s womb,nthe other at the grave. It stretches pastnus here...

On ‘The SilentnInvasion’nWhere to begin refuting WaynenLutton’s “The Silent Invasion” articlen{Chronicles, August 1987)? Only anbook could cover every point. Let’snstart with a quote from Thomas Jefferson,nwho in the Declaration of Independencencharged that King Georgenin “had endeavored to prevent thenPopulation of these States; for thatnPurpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalizationnof Foreigners; refusing tonpass others to encourage...

58 I CHRONICLESnones who will produce SDL Manynother examples could be cited.n—Reinhold StallmannSt. Louis, MOnThis country already has the mostngenerous immigration policy in thenworld, yet there are millions who willnnot wait to enter legally but sneaknacross our southern border in the deadnof night. It happens, but to a lessernextent, along our northern border.nOther thousands come...

B I CHRONICLESnGary Hart has withdrawn to the seclusionnof his Rocky Mountain home,nclaiming that the nation’s press, led bynthe Miami Herald, invaded his privacy.nDonna Rice, an aspiring actressnsuddenly in the limelight, is spendingnmost of her time denying to any reporternwho will listen that there wasnanything immoral in her relationshipnwith Hart. The national media, for thenmost...

States. Any presidential candidate ignoresnthem to his political peril.n—by Steven W. Mosher, director ofnthe Asian Studies Center at thenClaremont Institute in Montclair andnauthor of Broken Earth: The RuralnChinese and Journey to thenForbidden China.nJames Bmnham, R.I.P. He was ancontroversialist. As a literary critic henargued with T.S. Eliot, and as a Trotskyistnhe quarreled with Trotsky himself.nAlmost alone...

8 I CHRONICLESnmanuals, and books on every conceivablenhobby. You will not find, however,nanything but the niost popularnworks on any serious subject. What isnworse, librarians have a nasty habit ofnretiring good old books—instead ofnrebinding them—in order to makenroom for Jane Fonda tapes. Whenncomplaints are made, librarians takenrefuge either in democracy^^”We’renonly buying what people want”—ornfreedom of expression—“We...

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In those days the hills revealed themselves to be the prophet,nwhen the chamber of seasons dressed in scarlet openednto let in the spring with its nectar-brimming flowers.nThen, yes then, on the undying earth they flungntresses of lilacs, roses were braided in hair,nand an unearthly voice echoed to flutes as choirs made their waynto crown Semele,nher...

crotchets and quavers—without amused impatience, butnthat is also true of almost everything written on meter—nwhether Greek, Latin, or English. It is a field dividednbetween metaphysical theorists (all linguists fall in thisncategory) and pedantic collectors of useless data. The onlynway to learn about rhythm is by reading and writing verse.nSome 20th-century poets learned a great deal...

Is the family in Americanan outdated relic of the past?nIs the Intact nuclear family now just a memory from days gone by … a vestigialnsocial form that was, at best, oversentimentalized and, at worst, a narrow prison,nforcing men, women, and children into stereotypical roles that stultified freedom and individuality?nIntroducing a monthly newsletternthat holds this truth...

and which shapes the reader’s intuitive and rahonal understandingnof a literary work. The theme influences the widthnand the depth of an artistic message and, by its generalnsocial, ethical, or philosophical meanings, deepens thenartistic value of a work of art. It is on the theme, therefore,nthat the verisimilitude and truthfulness of the artisticnpicture of history largely...

nounced but kept the consonant plus e to emphasize thenchange:nNon, non, ma pauvre cornemuse,nTa complainte est pas si oiseuse;nEt Tout est bien une meprise,nEt Ton peut la trouver mauvaise . . .n(Poor bagpipes, the complaint you noisenIs not the tedium you suppose.nIt’s some contempt this Whole conveysnAnd you could find how bad it is.)*nThe English...

18 I CHRONICLESnrhyme, but notice how the hght syllable echoes the indistinctnbut similar sound obscured by the n of pliant.nNavrozov makes ebullient use of such things in his ownnwork:nGeisha—gazelle or gypsy,nQuietly sad or sly?nWild, like spring in Ipswich,nSudden, like winter’s flight?nThe wildness of spring in Ipswich is nicely qualified by then”wild” rhyme.nI do not know...

STATE OF THE LITERARY ESSAYnby Thomas P. McDonnellnAs a literary form, the essay was once thought to bendoomed as the novel is said to be in its perenniallynannounced demise. The familiar essay, in particular,nbrought to its classic perfection by Charles (“Elia”) Lamb innthe early 19th century, still finds some continuity today innour many personalized newspaper...

quits. (They had a harder time with the distinction betweenna Pentecostal and a “charismatic” and usually just grabbednwhichever term came to mind first.)nWhat was missing in the reporting on PTL was relativenperspective. Context. The necessity to place a question andnexpect an answer within a given context—are we in thenFundamentalist’s mentality here, or “the world’s”?—wasnsomething journalists...

Always, it comes down to money. Actually, it comes downnto an objection to the very idea of money, carefullyndisguised as an objection to “greed.” Since the PTL chaosnstarted, some critics of television evangelists have doneneverything but come right out and say it: How is it that thosenloony bumpkins get millions of dollars and smart people...

24 I CHRONICLESnsame strain to a radio interviewer onnthe station: “… Heart is where thenhome is, and the heart of a Welshmann…” Where did this kind of talk,nwhich another character calls “pissartistry,”noriginate? It makes very littlensense: To call Wales “land of river andnhill,” as Alun does, is not to differentiatenit sharply from any other place.nThe...

26 I CHRONICLESngotten it on. Moreover, Pythagoras, ansource of ultimate authority whonstands in the direct hne of Homericntransmission (as a disciple of thenHomerids, who passed the epic onnorally), frequently cited just this relationshipnas an example of the highernphilosophical dimensions of friendshipnbecause Achilles loved Patroclus asn”another self” Let alone the mismotivationnfor Achilles’ grudge that ensues:nIf Briseis...

This, the scene in which Thetis presentsnAchilles with new arms andnarmor, is so much in the atmospherenof a TV commercial it might as well benabout parity shields. “Made in Heaven”nmight better read “Made in HongnKong.” Concourse with a divine, transcendant,npermanent aspect of beingn—in which the heroes, their poet, hisnaudience, all passionately believe—wencan only relate to...

28 I CHRONICLESnimages captured on film, stationary ornmoving, those hoaked-up picturesnworth a thousand hoaked-up words,ntheir “truth” a matter of who pointsnthe camera at what and why, vahdatednby sales. It was not ever thus.nAnd if any ought to try to break thenvicious cycle of this enslaving processnwherein manufactured imagery givesnbirth to itself in logarithmic increasenthroughout every...

even a strongly held philosophicalnpoint of view—except to have none.nHe was left at the mercy of his ego,none more instance of the bankruptcynof modernism. And while he was annuncompromisingly professional writer,nwhat did he have, then, to be uncompromisingnabout? Honesty to his ownntaste, which is not a little thing in ournera, but not ever much of...

people are not marbles rattling in anbox. The American classic philosophers—Pierce,nRoyce, James, Santayana.nMead, Dewey—lived,nafter all, in the twilight of the Hegeliannphilosophical empire. But it isnHegel held at arm’s length, for, likenWilliam James, McDermott believesnthat the relations between things arenobjective and “external”—he certainlyndoes not hold that the Prussian (ornSoviet or American) state is “mind onnearth.”n”Marx, Durkheim,...

32 I CHRONICLESnFirst Lovenby P.J. KavanaghnClever, the way SatannPoints out I don’t knownWhether is sounding nownNear pigeon, distant cow.nIf I beheve an horizonnMeasured, awaits us,nHe asks me how I can.nI think he thinks he isnA hard man.nBut if the dream was you^nAnd if the dream untrue,nLook where it leads me to,nThis almost infinite place!nIf what...

34 I CHRONICLESnthat formerly served America.nPeter McLaren, a Canadian, addressesnhis work to the problems ofnlower-class Azorean students in anCatholic school in Toronto. Itnwould seem, then, that Schooling as anRitual Performance has little to do withnthe future of American education. Regardingnthe particulars of the book,nthis is correct. Theory, however, hasnno respect for borders; it is reasonablento...

Letter From FrenchnAmericanby Russell DesmondnFrancophobia on the RightnSeveral years ago in Paris I was surprisednto find young pamphleteers outsidenthe Hotel de Ville (or “ChateaunChirac” as an acquaintance would say)nshouting out, “Down with the bearded,nsold-out socialists!” When I toldnfi’iends at home, they seemed incredulous.nAfter Reagan bombed Libya Inremember that the people of Englandnand West Germany, our...

40 I CHRONICLESncism and the French^ monarchy. Withoutnbuying the entire ultramontanenprogram, I would suggest that Americannconservatives could learn from thenroyalists’ critiques of democracy in thensame way John Adams versed himselfnin the history of traditional monarchies.nAdams, the puritan secondnPresident of a republic, often foundnhimself defending the monarchicalnElder Daughter of the Church—ofncourse he always looked with suspicionnand...

there was one ethnic group Maurrasndistrusted more than the Jews, it wasnthe Germans. He moved his newspapernto a nonoccupied zone of Francenand continually criticized the Nazisnthroughout the war. And his politicalndream, based on decentralized, autonomousnregional governments with anbenevolent monarchial head in Paris,nhad nothing in common with the totalitarianismnof Hitler’s henchmen.nAlthough history proved him wrong,nhe sincerely...

42 I CHRONICLESndecision.” The decision was for thenplaintiff. Things have come so far innAmerica that the editors of a magazinenwere content to be pubhcly disgracednfor an appearance fee.nFather Andrew L.J. James is an EasternnOrthodox priest in Athens, Ohio.nLetter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernBeginnings Past All RememberingnThe Knights of Columbus Club is justnbeginning to buzz as we...

its giant arms and growing larger allnthe time, so large that where it stopsnnobody knows — and a marriage,nthank God, is more than the sum of itsnpartners. Time and patience effect angrace that mere intent never could. Inclose my eyes and can still hear thenmusic.nLetter From thenLower Rightnby John Shelton ReednThe Judgment of HistorynSatire is...

44 I CHRONICLESnconclude from this episode that thenTimes appreciates flaky ideas onlynwhen people aren’t facetious aboutnthem. Keep that in mind the next timenyou read what is unfortunately ournnation’s most influential newspaper.n]ohn Shelton Reed is a sociologist atnthe University of North Carolina,nChapel Hill, recently appointed tonthe National Council on thenHumanities.nLetter From Albionnby Andrei NavrozovnAn Episode in...

SCREENnFull Forcenby Katherine DaltonnFull Metal Jacket; directed by StanleynKubrick; screenplay by Kubrick,nMichael Herr, and Gustav Hasford;nbased on the novel The Short-nTimers by Hasford; Warner Bros.nFunny, that a film about “Vietnam asnit really was,” as Platoon was touted,nshould fall so wide of any mark ofnmerit, and that Vietnam films with ansurreal twist—Apocalypse Now andnKubrick’s latest. Full...

Elias, a good soldier fighting a badnwar, or like Chris, green and maybe anlittle stupid but still capable of gethngnby and, when the times comes, ofnwreaking his own justice with a rifle.nJoker is something real to Platoon’snpaper cutouts, but he’s not somethingnespecially admirable. He’s gotten himselfnassigned as a reporter for Stars &nStripes, which means he’s...

Or, if you prefer, take TWO free. Values to $69.95n2730 THE CONSERVATIVE MBVD – RussellnKirk. New 7th Edition of “the best and clearest expositionnof the conservative philosophy.”—James J.nKilpatrick. $19.95n2550 WITNESS – IVhittaker Chambers. Eloquentnautobiography of the man who spied for Stalin,nrepented and became America’s chief anti-nCommunist witness. $17.95n2201 WEALTH AND POVERTY – GeorgenGilder. “So grand...

6 I CHRONICLESnIt’s hip to be square—Huey Lewis’nnew gospel — may have been announcednprematurely. George Michaelnhas a different message: “I can’tnthink of a better question for a 13- orn14-year-old child to be asking thann’What does monogamy mean?'” Michaelnis a part-time child psychologistnbetter known as a pop singer who wasnonce the bigger half of a duo...