twenty-page chapter alone, while Mayngoes about the process of endeavoring tonconvince the reader that sex differencesnare real and have a measurable and predictablenimpact upon individuals, societiesnand cultures.nTaking his lead from classical mythology.nMay states that the myth ofnPhaeton, in which a young man endeavorsnto attain the power of the gods andnreaps only destruction, is a typicallynmale...

It is difficult to see how either ofnthese two books will add much to society’snunderstanding of the complexitiesnof sex roles and of gender-based personalnidentities. Sexton’s book has a decidedlynLittle Women air to it and seems tonwork best as a primer for exceedinglynnaive adolescents who have not yetnheard of existentialism or of Sartre’sndictate that “we are...

1973, seized control of the pricing ofnoil. With a puckish sense of humor,nKelly notes that back in I960 one ofnOPEC’s earliest demands was for the oilncompanies to “maintain their pricesnsteady and free from all unnecessarynfluctuations.” Many people, understandably,ndo not like the oil companies, andnthey have misbehaved, with governmentnconnivance, in the past. ARAMCO andnits American connections...

A'”n•<“if “n’iisfteni illlrinl^r^itiiS^nChronicles of Culture is anThe Rockford Institute.nIkna solid intellectual approachnwhich deserves attention.’n—LIBRARY JOURNALnJohn F. Lulves, Jr., Executive VicenPresident, Intercollegiate Studies Institute,nInc., about the Chronicles of Culture…n”The Chronicles of Culture has establishednan excellent reputation for its ongoing andndevastating critique of the libera! orthodoxynthat continues to be dominant in culturalnmatters. Be it books, films, trends,neducation,...

matters in Iran. The Shah’s predecessorsnwere often devoted exponents of thenpyramid-of-skulls school of statesmanship.nKelly perhaps overdoes his theme ofnthe unchanging East. He is apt to reasonna bit too facilely from precedent and tonignore or minimize the impact of thenmodern world on the Middle East andnthe ability of its peoples at least partlynto adapt to it....

Her fixations about men, women and thenworld begin to change as the ennui of hernprofessional success wears away thenscars over the old wounds of her personalnlife.nIronically, she finally learns somethingnabout herself and life, not fromnthe feminists or her liberated friends,nbut from several men who have movednon the fringes of her life. Hugo, an amputeenwriter and...

Dreams Adulterated by PropagandanStuds Terkel: American DreamsnLast and Found; Pantheon Books;nNew York.nby Mike LavellenA. tape recorder, selective interviewsnand selective editing can be the ingredientsnof a pop sociology and a best-sellingnbook. Studs Terkel is neither an authornnor a sociopolitical sage, thoughnhe is celebrated as both by the liberalnmedia eager for a reflection of their liberalnviews. Studs...

he pretends to represent—that is, thenAmerican lower-middle class. He is onnthe editorial board and is part-owner ofnthe shrillest weekly of the intellectualnleft, The Nation, an associate of InnThese Times, a Chicago-based socialistnweekly, and a founding father of thenBarry Commoner Citizens Party, whichndid not have enough citizens to getnmore than 0.21% oi the vote in the...

class and the neurotic class.” But in Mr.nLapham’s vision of American society,nthe equestrian class is neurotic as well.nIt invades small Southeast Asian countriesnand dabbles ineffectually in freeversencomposition; it has an unreflectingnfaith in the omnipotence of technologynand makes films celebrating a fashionablendespair about the possibility ofnprogress; it hunts foxes to the strainsnof Stockhausen.nSomething odd is clearly...

In short, we have to lament the metaphor’snliterary and political influence.nTo write an entire book around such antheme would be to cram truth into annill-fitting straitjacket; and it is greatlynto Mr. Lapham’s credit that he has writtennnothing of the sort. What he hasndone is something less pretentious andnmore interesting—namely, he hasncollected a number of his...

putes between conservatives andnliberals.nThis method is seen best in the already-mentionednessay on the FordnFoundation’s 1974 energy study. Allnof the evidence marshaled and presentednby Mr. Lapham supports the view of thencapitalistic Mr. Tavoulareas that Mr.nDavid Freeman, the project’s organizer,nwas “a fool and a zealot.” It also makesnclear that the Foundation reneged on annexplicit promise to Mr....

Costa Rica and Japan have greater civilnliberties than Greece (the cradle of democracy),nFrance (the motherland ofnMontesquieu), Italy (the country of thenRenaissance) and Germany (in many respects,nthe most Western of all Westernncountries). This alone wreaks havocnwith the West-East or North-South antithesis.nSimilarly, we learn that it is thenpoor in Turkey or India who are devotednto the Western...

communists. Let the French and Italianncommunists, and those who vote fornthem, see how “free” the Hungariansnor Poles are (unless they misbehave andnhave to be disciplined). As the Russiannexpression goes, a tyrant may wantnsomething just because his left footnwants it.nIn Russia I lived with my family in anmansion in the countryside, my wife didnnot work and...

“Western names” (party, government,nelection, etc.) is to mislead the publicnabout the nature of regimes which reversena millennium of political developmentnin Europe. These regimes shouldnnot be analogized to the European developmentnjust because totalitarian propagandandoes so for reasons of its own.nvJne of the most misleading wordsn(actively exploited by totalitarian propaganda)nis, in this context, the word “democracy.”nUntil the...

scientific concept to carry and, truth tontell, Rifkin cannot make it do so. WhatnRif kin offers in this book is a pop versionnof a world view: Entropy is to Vico,nToynbee, Hegel and even Teilhard whatna McDonald’s hamburger is to hautencuisine.nR ifkin attacks what he calls then”mechanical paradigm” and, to hisncredit, he is correct, at least...

ard of living. (Calling for a reduction innthe earth’s population does not seem anpractical way of dealing with this.)nHistorical inevitability is an importantnpart of world views; it makes predictionsnof the future seem inspired, partnof the unfolding of a rational plan. Andnhere lies the rub; inevitability may possiblynbe a guide for history as a whole,nbut it...

lar in this region, which reinforces ournepoch’s tendency toward unisexualitynand the increasing lack of differentiationnbetween the sexes. A recently publishednwork of profound insight, A WomannLooks at Men’s Buns, has been sellingnvery well in Chicago, while the burgeoningninfluence of the homosexual onnour pop culture has also contributed tonthis rather obtrusive fascination. Mr.nLaver would have found this...

ference and, by implication, superioritynof the 1930 to 1955 group is overrated.nFor example, members of the generationnof 1905 to 1930 “were shaped” in a timenthat included World War I, Einstein’sngeneral theory of relativity, the Bolsheviknrevolution, Prohibition, Ulysses,nLindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic,nand the collapse of the U.S. stocknexchange. So what’s new.^nDescribing his group, Broder stressesnthat,...

doubtedly be in for a drubbing from thenremaining Democrats (or someone else),nthe likes of which will make RalphnNader’s laying-waste look elementary.nAnother type of reaction, this morenshrill and less Utopian, is typified in a bylinednpiece on the editorial page of thenDetroit Free Press on November 20,n1980. Reese Cleghorn, associate editornof the Free Press, opens the opinionnpiece...

NEXTnin The Rockford PapersnMoral Majoritarians have put togetherna persuasive brief. Onlynthe deaf, dumb, blind and ignorantncould deny that America has been inundatednwith pornographic provocationnin the last two decades. On stagenand screen and in books and magazinesnwe have been treated to a displaynof moral degradation that almostnexceeds the powers of the humannimagination. Here I agree with...

Of Love for Meliorism and UpheavalsnJames H. Billington: Fire in thenMinds of Men; Basic Books; NewnYork.nby Paul GottfriednjDillington’s volume has elicitednharsh reviews from journals thatnChronicles of Culture has properly criticizednas mechanistically liberal. I, too,nmust line up with those who have beennunimpressed by this rambling study ofnalmost 700 pages. Dealing with majornrevolutionary movements over the lastntwo...

they recognize no qualitative—i.e.,nmoral and spiritual—standards, exceptnin terms of the conduciveness—or nonconduciveness—ofnan action or idea tonbring about a desired material transformation.nThe changes they envisage arenseen as possible only through brute forcenand can be effected only through theirnimpact upon the prevalent mode of productionnand upon the economically dominantnclass.nIhese Marxist commonplaces arenrelevant in that they show the...

henchmen, came to fulfillment innGermany only because the countrynpossesses such a long tradition of contemptnfor intellectuals, for reason andnthe things of the mind.nIt appears that the German people wereneager to embrace a fundamentally antirationalnforce that would allow them tonfollow orders and be exempt from thinking,nto unleash their most brutal impulses.nHochhuth aptly quotes as anmotto to...

significant role—indeed, that the Germannpeople as a whole contributed tonHitler’s attack upon civilization—thatnprompted Hochhuth to write his book.nThe verdict is not a simple and unequivocaln”guilty”; but neither is the plea ofnnational insanity meant to exonerate thenGermans from stifling, in cold blood, sonmany million love stories. The booknends with an excruciating, vivid descriptionnof Zasada’s hanging—his slow,nineptly...

for a minute. He claims in an introductorynnote that these BBC talks are writtenn”no more than a couple of hoursnbefore they are taped”—something thatnwould be well beyond my powers. Still,nwhat I keep thinking is that since then1930’s, when Cooke arrived in America,nthe country has undergone a staggeringndecline. Cooke won’t ever tell us this,nalthough he must...

cient even to gain that extrandollar, much less to attain salvation.nIn short, he is a conservative.nThus, he writes:nThe calm and admittedlynnecessary liberal vision . . .nstill has failed to grasp thenreasons for its own crisis innthe contemporary world.nThis is the flaw of all classicalnliberal thought. It isntheoretically indifferent tonends, the belief that suchnthings are merely...

litical and artistic priorities assertednthemselves, all with ansupposedly liberal slant. Thisnnew liberalism, however, tooknthe form of cultural hate andnnihilism, in which we are told,nfor instance, that the real revolutionnis the sexual one. We wondernwhether the old dissent wasnnot better than this new orthodoxy,nwhose invisibility makes itneven more insidious. (GMP) DnPerceptiblesnStanley R. Rader: Against thenGates of...

Fun, Anyone?nNine to Five; Written by Colin Higginsnand Patricia Resnick; Directednby Colin Higgins; 20th Century-Fox.nNeil Simon’s Seems Like Old Times;nWritten by Neil Simon; Directed bynJay Sandrich; Rastar, Columbia Pictures.nby Stephen MacaulaynIn Nine to Five, Jane Fonda, LilynTomlin and Dolly Parton portray thenThree Musketeerettes of the modernncorporate world. According to the film,nany faux pas makes one...

lessly hammer at the same conceptualntheme. The word and notion bourgeoisienis distilled on their canvases as the purengnostic extract of evil. Rudolf Schlichter’snportrait of Bertolt Brecht becomes ansort of holy icon. Christian Schad’s renditionsnof individualized depravity arenperhaps more humane, moderated bynsome melancholic, worldly introspections,nbut at the same time ambivalent.nWe had no trouble with George Grosz’snnaturalistic...

until 1974 that Butler was coaxed backninto the recording studios. Since then,nhe has appeared on several Xanadu albums.nThe latest is “Wheelin’ and Dealin’n” (Xanadu 169), and in it Butlernleads a quintet featuring the tenor saxophonistsnTeddy Edwards and Joe Farrell.nFarrell is adventuresome and edgy.nEdwards often falls back on bop clichesnbut is as comfortable as an old...

tions, etc.) constitute such a large portionnof the population and 2) the difficultiesnin combating the Marxist guerrillasndue to the hiding places afforded bynjungles, rugged mountains, secluded villages,netc. Nowhere did I suggest anythingnwhich would contradict Mr. St.nJohn’s explanation of the importance ofnreligion to the Indians. It was not my intentionnto say everything there is to saynabout...

came to full bloom in the activities andnpostures of such men of God as the Berrigans,nRev. William Sloane Coffin andnmany like them—which, perhaps, confirmsnthat old Biblical truth: nothingnserves God better than man’s humblenessnof mind and heart (which tells himnnot to be so sure that he has the answernto every earthly dilemma). The accountsnof the hostages...

Sex AidsnMademoiselle—once an organnof college-age young women—nhighlights two features on itsnJanuary 1981 cover: “How tonGet Your Way in Bed” and “Vibrators:nToday’s Love Toy.”nThe first is written by a “psychotherapist”nand the second by an”medical doctor”—the legitimacynof cool expertise is thus assured.nIt would be fatuous to arguenthat in other ages and culturesncollege-age girls (18-24) didn’tnknow what vibrators...

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Ectitor^s CommeiitnOn the threshold of the 1980’s, we wish to make it clearnthat:n—the deepest sources of discord in America are not politicalnor economic, but ideological and cultural;n—the two main political parties are ideologically undefinable;ntheir differences are in sociopolitical postulates;n—the authentic and meaningful disagreement is betweennthose who call themselves conservatives and those whoncall themselves liberals.nX he...

culture, which the evidence from recent decades hasnproved to be morally and existentially superior to anynother behavioral proposition.nThe liberal occupation of the American mind, of Americannsensitivities, of the American sense of moral attractiveness,ndaily choices, preferences, proclivities and even everydaynlogic, creates an unhealthy situation in which conservativencounterproposals are doomed to a stunted existence. Thenliberal appropriation of...

opinions & VicivsnFrom Robespierre with LovenBertram Gross: Friendly Fascism:nThe New Face of Power in America;nM. Evans & Co.; New York.nRichard Lingeman: Small TvwnnAmerica: A Narrative History, 1620n— The Present; G. P. Putnam’s Sons;nNew York.nby James J. Thompson, Jr.nA.merican leftists had best pondernan old saying that still makes the roundsnamong God-fearing folks: “Be carefulnwhat you pray...

government, but they will reject out ofnhand his criticisms of corporate power.nIn doing so, they supply the left withnone of its most compelling argumentsnfor destroying capitalism altogether.nThe conservative, above all of hisncompatriots, should possess an acutenawareness of the sinful nature of man,nof the fallen condition of humankindnthat leads men into the paths of evil,nwhere they...

cratic masses.nJL/eep in the hearts of Gross andnLingeman lurks a fierce desire to destroynAmerican capitalism and to restructurenthe economy to suit the tastes of theneditorial staff of The Nation. With bignbusiness out of the way “Friendly Fascism”nwould no longer threaten, andnthe federal government, now strippednof its war-making capacity, could turnnits full attention to the enforcement...

ism was blasted out of existence in 1945.nMoreover, the authors claim, Americanninvestment and aid in Latin Americanand the high economic growth fosterednby regimes like that in Brazil actuallynimpoverish people—evidently by anneconomic process so arcane that it can-never, Chomsky and Herman polish thentarnished myths of the Indochina warnand defend the new communist regimes.nThe amount of straddling...

ism,” so they deem it ideologically necessarynto whitewash the vilest regime innthe world. In reality, of course, manynhave managed to shift part of the blamenfor the Cambodian horrors onto thenUnited States. In claiming thatnCambodia was forced into the war bynAmerican actions in its border region—nrather than because of the stationingnof North Vietnamese troops there—nChomsky and...

questions of man’s inner life.nBoth writers experienced exclusionnand alienation. Marquand had a sensenof being unjustly excluded in youthnfrom the elite society of Newburyportnand Harvard. Millicent Bell demonstratesnthat this became the compellingnmotive of his life. He erected a mythnof his own disadvantage that, psychicallynspeaking, became his reality. Butnin his life and writing this motivenscarcely transcends the...

tual terms. He confronts an incompletenessnof utterance, an indeterminacy ofnmeaning, a seemingly unconscious ornrandom association of images, whichnsimultaneously demand and defynexegesis.”nEven clearly recognizing this problem,nWatt refuses to accept the aestheticnand symbolist doctrines of the separationnof art from life, and he claims fornConrad the same refusal. His interpretationsnof Conrad’s novels include welldevelopednsections on biographical andnhistorical sources...

militarist in the face of Soviet and communistnaggression, shares Lippmann’snnaive enthusiasm for “Wilson’s war.”nThe German and Austrian Kaisers inn1914 were, after all, less peacelovingnthan Stalin in 1945—or such is the impressionnhis book seeks to give. Nor doesnSteel bother to criticize Lippmann’s petitioningnthe Secretary of War for a draftnexemption soon after other Americansnhad begun to bleed...

All in the FamilynTodd Gitlin: The Whole World isnWatching: Mass Media in the Makingn& Unmaking of the New Left;nUniversity of California Press;nBerkeley, California.nby Gary S. VasilashnAmerican journalism, as it’s practicedntoday, has its roots in the nation’snjunior high schools. There, the buddingnjournalist learns one lesson that is nevernforgotten and is neglected only at greatnperil: everyone wants...

otherwise generally uncooperative.nThat point (the fact that journalistsnaren’t very sharp) is stressed throughoutnthe book. First Gitlin asserts, “thenarchetypical news story is a crime story,nand an opposition movement is ordinarily,nroutinely, and unthinkingly treatednas a sort of crime.” Thinking is out because:n”Extending the news story wouldnentail hard and unaccustomed work,noutside normal newsgathering routines,ngoing beyond the given scene,...

part of the “State,” which has “an oligopolized,nprivately controlled corporateneconomy.” This corporate command hasnan “intimate ally, the bureaucratic nationalnsecurity state.”nJournalists—but not the sympatheticnones, I assume—are tools of the State.nThey work within structures calledn”frames”: “principles of selection, emphasis,nand presentation composed ofnlittle tacit theories about what exists,nwhat happens, and what matters.”nFrames are constructed by “politicalnand economic elites”...

and Roosevelt, however, is a more-thanordinarilynq’nical book. It portrays neithernthe President nor his instrumentnas having been men of any particularnhonor, principle or even pretense. Theynmet to take advantage of each othernand they both succeeded. In the coursenof their long collaboration they servednto both epitomize and symbolize thendegradation of the democratic dogma innthe United States. Mr....

cal plums. Having achieved this turnaround,nFDR promptly dropped Kennedy.nAfter the United States was propelledninto war by Japan and Hitler,nKennedy was ignored until the beginningnof Roosevelt’s fourth term. ThennRoosevelt put on his charm for the lastntime, and for the last time Kennedyncapitulated.nX hat is the outline of Beschloss’sntale. It is well documented and studdednwith illustrious names....