precedented for a septuagenarian in jazz.nEven Armstrong had stopped developingnlong before he reached his seventies.nBut Hines shows no sign of diminishingnCorrespondencenLetter from London: Theatrenby Francis DonahuenAs for theater, London remains thenimperial city. Nowhere else is therensuch a concentration of playhouses offeringna continuous banquet of theaternfare. Nowhere else is there such a distinguishednstable of playwrights activelynsupplying...

own definition of a free press: “One thatnis edited by one of my relatives.” WhennWagner hints at another one-nightnstand, Ruth replies:n”A lady, if surprised by melancholy,nmight go to bed with a chap, once;nor a thousand times if consumed bynpassion. But twice, twice … a ladynmight think she’d been taken for antart.”nThe mood turns somber when...

again, calling him a coward, “the quarrelnis now fair,” for there is legitimatencause for a duel. Serving as a counterfoilnto such honor in high places is ansubplot involving two plebeian characters,na hulking Cornish wrestler and hisnservant, who, in imitation of their superiors,nstrive to learn a type of “roaring”n(fanciful insulting) in order to pick theirnown quarrels...

ifiers, like Time, declared that thensounds they made were music, poetry,nart, rebellion, expressions of trammeled,ninvaluable instincts. The corpses ofnthose who were trampled to death,nknifed, shot, or who just O.D.’ed onndrugs began to mark this trail of culturaln”progress.” And nothing indicatesnthat it s ending.nFinally, this last episode shows thatnthe word “expiation” should be deletednfrom the English...

of the black community in the U.S.”nWith a new and growing conservativenintellectual movement in the blackncommunity, the monolithic stereotypesnof the past have become irrelevant as,nin reality, they always were. Subscriptionsnto the Lincoln Review are $12.00nannually. The address is: 1735 De SalesnStreet, N.W., Washington, D.C.n20036. DnAntitoxinnAccuracy In Media, Inc. is a socialnbody of whose existence most...

proposed “march” was intended to protestna Skokie Park District permit ordinancenrequiring $350,000 in liabilitynand damage insurance, and was to include—notnspeeches or handbills—butnthe display of placards bearing suchnslogans as “Free Speech for the WhitenMan” and “Free Speech for WhitenAmericans.” The Village was advisednthat the demonstration would take placenon a Sunday, would include less thann50 people and...

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Editor’s CommentnI am occasionally reminded (some would say warned), bynpeople whom I respect, that the Chronicles’ polemical tonencarries a seed of zealotry. This may result, say those whonremind me, in unreflective rejections. If this is the case,nwe must have misguided some messages, as narrow partisanshipnwas never our ambition. We do not want to become ancause...

These are difficult questions, devoid of any common denominator.nGulf & Western is a mammoth corporation whichnshould stand for capitalism, profits and a free market. Yetnits subsidiaries—publishing houses, record companies. ParamountnPictures—publish books, sell albums and make moviesnwhich present capitalism as Satan’s invention and openlyndesire its instant demise. This is nothing extraordinary, asnGulf & Western is also...

logical, clear-thinking, and persuasive publicists in America,nor Arnold Beichman—one of the most captivating ones?nHas any reader of Esquire or Nation ever heard anythingnabout the distinguished American philosophers Albert JaynNock or Frederick Wilhelmsen? Why is it that the onlynopinion on hard-working small businessmen comes fromnBurbank, or Manhattan, where smart alecks are making fortunesnby turning the moral...

ruling set of values which upholds its unassailability by administrativenand bureaucratic means begins to rot first innarts and letters—precisely because they are privileged andnprotected. The liberals in America have not yet attained thenSoviet style of protectionism, but a special tariff for thenliberal twaddle became a rule of cultural life in America innthe ’60s and 70s....

opinions & ViewsnMoujik ‘n’ Pulp SandwichnWilliam Styron: Sophie’s Choice;nRandom House; New York.nby Lev NavrozovnMr . William Styron was born in Virginia,nserved in the Marine Corps, studiednat Duke University. The narrator ofnSophie’s Choice was born in Virginia,nserved in the Marine Corps, studied atnDuke University. He is also a novelist.nHe is introduced to us by his schoolnnickname...

norm for the New York literary andnintellectual establishment, it is silly fornme to condemn it. It is the same as goingnto an operetta and then announcing thatnthe content is both trite and haphazard,nthe scenery gaudy, the costumes garish,nthe music atrocious, and the singersncannot sing. After all, this is what thenaudience paid for.nAs is typical in...

duce his perverse sister-in-law, who alsondisappears after the perverse sex story.nStingo revels in stereotypes and platitudes.nBut those are functional stereotypesnor platitudes; they can be pluggednin or out at will, exchanged, recombined,nthrown out, or replaced, with thenrecurrent hope that the book will benless unoriginal, if more far-fetched andnphony.n1 he first 20th-century Western pulpnnovel I read had...

over into a cultural or educational layer,nhe forgets what he wrote on the previousnpage and becomes a fastidious esthete,nNew Yorker style.nA Nazi says to Sophie, for example:n”Ich mochte mit Dir schlafen.” Thisnmeans, explains Stingo, “I’d like to getnyou into bed with me.” “Dreary loutishnwords,” fumes Stingo, forgetting thatnfor the other layers of his novel, thesenwould...

party and cannot recall the word “schizophrenia.”nThe more cultured Nazinprompts him: “Schizophrenia.”n” ‘Yes, that’s the word,’ HOss replied.n’That mind doctor in Vienna, hisnname escapes—‘n’Sigmund Freud.'”nActually, this cute conversation couldntake place between, say, two New Yorkers.nFreud contended that his psychoanalysisnshould be applied only to mildnneuroses—never to schizophrenia. Angroup of Americans calling themselvesnpsychiatrists is the only large...

at school; he liked mathematics; henlacked ambition in the civil service;nhe had a thick neck, and his legs weren”not long enough”; he suffered fromnunrequited love; he was devoted to hisnmother; he was “far from impotent”;nand so on, and so on. Perhaps such detailsnmight be shown to possess a significancenbeyond themselves; Lord Snownseems to love them...

lack of interest in sex, an interest previouslyncentral to his life. Comfort andnpleasure are the twin rulers of his world.nThere surely must be, he concludes,nsomething very seriously wrong with anman whose appetite is not markedly,nconstantly, and earnestly stimulated bynthe sexual banquet promised by his culturenthrough television, radio, magazines,nbooks, advertising, film, andnalmost everything else. Referred to...

ual pabulum.” She tells him bluntlynthat “You’ve got to find out whethernyou feel any affection for me or whethernyou’re the sort of man who can only feelnaffection for women he wants to go tonbed with …” Eve, a one-time convenientnbed-partner, agrees with Brenda;nJake is a man who sees nothing more innwomen than creatures to go...

” ‘Darling, you are a silly old Oxfordndon, it is only a word.’n’Only a word?~s,otry. No, this wholenthing is all about language.’ “nIn this terrible qtaagmire of abused andnbloodied language, there seems to benno way out. Jake has no “strong barriersnof moral conviction [that] can be raisednagainst mischief.” Like Alice, he isntrapped by the magisterial...

is a reference to Peter Braestrup’s massivenbook, Big Story, which argued inneffect that the media turned a Viet Congndefeat into a victory. Gans simply repeatsnthe old cliches about the editorsnin New York being unwilling to believenthe bad news being reported from thenfield. He does not refute Braestrup’sncontentions; he simply pretends thatnthey had never been made....

Kuralt’s On the Road program is contemptuouslyndismissed as merely concernednwith “harmless eccentrics,” whongive the false impression that ruggednindividualism is still possible innAmerica. Gans echoes the resentmentnof local journalists that the networksngave favorable coverage to the IowanAmish trying to prevent their childrennfrom being herded into public schools.nIn case you hadn’t noticed, Gans reportsnthat the media are...

from recording anything that the SecretnPolice might be able to trace to a specificnperson.” But how can it be? Doesn’t thenSoviet-bloc reflect the dictatorship ofnthe proletariat? Isn’t it a socialist Utopia?nWe were taught that the only problemsnin communist countries consisted ofnminor material shortages caused by subversivenelements. How can we understandna world turned upside-down,nwhere visiting grandmas...

Remarque’s All Quiet on the WesternnFront, and today, most of the deluge ofnVietnam novels. Michael Herr’s Dispatchesnwas an anti-American diatribenset in the war zone; Phillip Caputo’snA Rumor of War a well-crafted memoirnthat will probably not be improved on.nEven so, Caputo’s book is weak when itnfixes on the larger questions: in wonderingnwhy we were in Vietnam,...

tain them, they dreamed of Paris.nL he virtue of O’Brien’s novel is thatnit shuns polemics. He writes intenselynof combat: the anticipation, mindlessnfiring, counting bodies, and numbednrecovery; it is enough to evokeneither admiration of such succinctnprose, or the fatuous assumption thatnthe explicit horror of it all means thatnO’Brien is shocked at the very idea ofnAmericans fighting...

together reviews and papers into a singlenvolume is, of course, no easy task;nand Mansfield tries to accomplish thisnby weaving a central theme into bothnthe introductory and closing chapters.nExamining the problematic nature ofnliberal democracy, he focuses upon thenconflicts between liberals and liberalsnand between liberals and democrats. Accordingnto his thesis, the Americannregime, in some ways, resembles thenmixed...

tion of a dissident Marxist, MilovannDjilas, who in the 1950s criticized thencommunist functionaries and technocratsnin his native Yugoslavia. Djilasndesignated them as the true beneficiariesnof modern communist revolutions,nrather than the proletariat.nLater Irving Kristol apphed the samenterm to America’s anticapitahst educators,njournalists, and social engineersnwho were forming a common frontnagainst the mercantile community. Onnthe basis of surveys and...

I cannot prove: namely, that it’s a put-onnfrom beginning to end. His definitionnof the new class is so laudatory as tonbe absurd. It includes all those with annalleged monopoly on culture, rationality,nand universal compassion. But is itnreally a class he describes, or attributesnof an imaginary perfect being? The newnclass is further made to resemble divinitynin...

origins and the nature of its essentialnsupports; intellectuals will carp, thenpeople will decline to defend and thenhouse will fall.nDr. Rogge began by saying he did notnagree with this, and then proceeded tonaccept—and repeat—some of the basicnelements of the Schumpeter argument.nMost significantly, he agreed that mostnpeople cannot see the connectionnbetween their own lives and the futurenof...

does not want the state to subsume whatnshould be social—and private. That isnvery human and not very clear—Nocknnotwithstanding.nThe fact is that when Dr. Rogge deliverednthat speech he was in the gripnof libertarianism in its fashionable earlynphase, before it dithered into its presentnmindless anarchism. Speaking as onenwho considered himself a libertarian,nDr. Rogge scorns liberals who believenin...

much of Germany and the Netherlands.nThanks to theprewar build-up, the Alliesnjust barely manage to hold the Sovietsnback from the Rhine long enough fornreinforcements to fight their way acrossnthe Atlantic. Trouble develops in thenSoviet rear, and their efforts outsidenEurope are defeated by South Africa.nHere the story becomes both improbablenand contradictory. Halted, the Sovietsndecide to pull out...

in crossing the Atlantic.) The authorsnthink that the high rates of consumptionnof supplies and of destruction of materialnwould enforce a short war. But whilenthat may mean that campaigns wouldnbe short, it does not guarantee thatnwars will be. Third, the Soviets mightnintroduce tactical nuclear weapons, calculatingnthat a surprise attack wouldngive them victory, and that the Westnwould...

no way would exist to even estimatentheir size.nIn a discussion of coal, Teller presentsnhis own equally unique and unconventionalntheory of how some coal isnformed, but I’ll let you read that onenfor yourself.nTeller, of course, is best known fornhis invention (with Stan Ulam) of thenthermonuclear explosive and for hisnpromotion of the development of thenhydrogen bomb. It...

period, corporations retained their quasipublicncharacter. In exchange for certainnprivileges from the state—a legalnmonopoly, exemption from taxes, andneven the power of eminent domain—nthey would provide banks, harbors,ncanals, streets, and other public works.nThen, as now, the idea was to makenprivate capital serve the public good.nBut the idea didn’t work. State monopoliesnwere denounced as oppressive andnexploitative, and their...

warded. Ms. McLendon’s book tries tonmake a dignified portrait from a carica­nStagenIneptitude as ManifestonIsrael Horovitz: The Primary EnglishnClass; St. Nicholas TheatrenCompany; Directed by Gerald Gutierrez.nThe drama (play, comedy, allegory,nskit or trifle—whatever suits one) takesnplace in a classroom at night, accordingnto the program. We can infer from thenremarks of the characters that the adtionngoes on in...

ScreennNot-All-Too-Bad Kids and Inept BlasphemynBreaking Away; Directed by PeternYates; Written by Steve Tesich;n20th Century-Fox.nPeppermint Soda; a film by DianenKurys; a Gaumont/New YorkernFilms Release.nMonty Python’s Life of Brian; Directednby Terry Jones; Written bynGraham Chapman, John Cleese, TerrynGilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones,nMichael Palin; Handmade Films.nby Eric ShapearonW. C. Fields, that great visionary,nmay have had the right instinct:...

derision against it would certainly backfire.nLife of Brian, which artistically isnan assemblage of mostly dull, franticallynnoisy and underdeveloped skits, tries tonMusicnTruth Through the Art of RiffnJosef Skvorecky: The Bass Saxophone;nAlfred A. Knopf; New York.nby Douglas A. RamseynIt is possible, although I have seennno serious defense of the idea, that thenrecent defections to the United Statesnfrom...

an established component of the makeupnof many cultured Europeans, fromnAldous Huxley to Andr^ Malraux. Atnthe same time in the United States, itnwas generally considered, at best, quaint.nFor the narrator of “The Bass Saxophone,”nlife in his little Czech town isndominated on the one hand by the Nazinoccupation and on the other by his preoccupationnwith the fact...

of color and fascination with the linearndo not lend glamor to the hideous, butnat the same time do not strip uglinessnof dignity—we do not know, but it isnall there. The demi-chanteuses andndemi-mondaines, coarse and human,nrepelling and alluring, and their patrons,ntop-hatted and sallow, compose themselvesninto a panorama of an era whichnwe have agreed to call beautiful,...

of this Volpe encounter was “Order andnDisorder.” Philosophers, lawyers, economists,npohtologues and artists—theynseemed hke a defiance of the Red Brigadenin a city where practically siegenconditions prevail: six bombs went offnin various districts the night before thenopening.nTwo schools of thought emergednfrom the start: the positivistic one,” definingnorder as following from the naturenof reality, and a metaphysical one,nassuming...

Carre that was adorned with nothingnbut the accumulated and ennobling dirtnof decades. He established an artisticncredo: Purity, Poignancy and Traditionn— and ruthlessly went about cultivatingnand preserving it. Not too consciously,nI presume, he sensed that there was ancultural treasure in having septuagenariansnplay with syncopated and improvisationalnexcellence, faithful tontheir almost dogmatic canon of musicalnheritage. The generosity of...

and power aspects. The U.S.S.R. andnChina confront each other directly; nonhapless Eastern Europe is caught betweennthem. Also, China is still farnweaker than either the Soviet Union ornthe West, and is hardly capable of pursuingnopenly aggressive policies exceptnagainst a few of its immediate neighborsnin Southeast Asia. (It is curious, incidentally,nthat China’s aid, includingntroops, to the Burmese...

the Russians.”nThis seals off the case and perfectlyndenotes the moral and political smellnthat fills the Progressive’s quarters andnpages. And then some Americans wondernwhy, after such an abuse of freedomsnand privileges, overzealousnavengers of national decency launchntheir fateful raids. Like Senator Mc­nCarthy. From Wisconsin. DnApocalypse NownA frightened writer for the VillagenVoice, that seismograph of the radicalnleft in...

No, no and no. It’s that old farceur,nProf. Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith. Nownwe are, of course, delighted with hisnborn-again faith in the free market, butnwe are a little disturbed that he callsnoptimism about capitalism a bit of hisnwisdom. If his wisdom tells him thatnthings are O.K., we may have somenreason to worry.nLovable CultismnStrange how liberalism—once...

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Editor’s CommentnWhat’s normalcy?nNo one knows exactly. People with an innate propensitynfor moody incertitude would argue that, to begin with, itndoes not exist. Both scientists and sophist philosophers arenuneasy with it: it is somehow counter to the on-the-otherhandnrecipe for knowledge. On the other hand, however,nwithout the notion of normalcy, both science and casuistrynwould turn into sports...

his was an act of compliance with the reigning behavioralndogma, a collaboration with power, not a challenge of power,nas the homosexuals are simply an officially sanctioned socialnminority these days, thanks to the decree of liberal culturenand fashion. Thus, the young inverts gained entrance tonthe festivities in keeping with the new social mood, but,naccording to press...

opinions &. ViewsnThe Importance of Being a Terrorist en VoguenOtto J. Scott: The Secret Six: JohnnBrown and the Abolitionist Movement;nTimes Books/Quadrangle;nNew York.nby Gordon M. PradlnJLate Spring, planting right on schedule,nthe anticipation of a new cyclenof growth just beginning. After annendless day in the field, James andnMahala Doyle and their daughter andnthree sons had retired shortly...

of Negro troops during the Civil War)nwhose invalid wife from time to timenforced him into foreign travel, awaynfrom the battles that were heating upnat home; and Frank Sanborn, thenyoungest of the group, only 27 in 1859,nwho, at Emerson’s urgings, had openedna school in Concord after his graduationnfrom Harvard.nInterspersed with the activities ofnthe Secret Six, Scott...

he was fighting for a just cause! Thenactual facts as Scott has revealed themnare glossed over in these textbooks, andnthe problem of terrorism avoided. Thenreality of innocent murder is nevernpleasant, and so naturally enough thenhistorian would prefer to rationalizenit away, especially when a banner asnglorious as that accorded the abolitionistsnis conveniently at hand. Yet contrastnthis...