... recently, coeditor of “Countercultural Capital: Essays on the Sixties from Some Who Weren't There,” a special issue of the Yale Journal of Criticism . The White Oriental Michael Szalay ranslated into nineteen languages and the basis of two major motion Tpictures, Richard Condon’s novel...

... are accustomed to regard their British cousins with respect and awe because of their penetrating empiricism. The reviewer can only admire the tremendous display of knowledge to be seen in the book at hand, but he cannot condone the tacit adherence to a state of learning which has long since been...

... to Americans, who are accustomed to regard their British cousins with respect and awe because of their penetrating empiricism. The reviewer can only admire the tremendous display of knowledge to be seen in the book at hand, but he cannot condone the tacit adherence to a state of learning which...

... to reading poetry, but a strictly pedagogical project prompted by internationalist ideals) is cited as an exam- ple of his condoning the debasement of language to a set of quasi-scientific “ciphers” (p. 13). Goodson treats Leavis as the critic who turned English into a profession, describing him...

..., and that the student must watch both the stage and the audience, both the artist and his society, for a complete understanding. If this is to com- mit the “affective fallacy” and judge a work of art by its results, illuminat- ing what a play is by what it does, then I willingly condone the offense...

... spring wholly from an elastic pragmatism. Believing goodness and truth to be equally unknowable, he condones whatever is expedient. Despite Archie’s supple leadership, the intellectual “guard- ian and figurehead” (pp. 63-64) of the jumpers is Professor Duncan McFee, whom George is preparing...

... religious practice literary history condoned to that date: the “Anglican,” with its genial overtones of Catholic suavity and ritualism. But Eliot’s uncongenial prejudices aside-or, for that matter, those of Dorothy Sayers, who made the Rkligzo Medici the hallmark of Oxonian eros in Gaudy Night...

... Chronicle of Barset, Chap. VII: “But, as there are men who will allow themselves all imaginable latitude in their treatment of women, believing that the world will condone any amount of fault of that nature, so there are other men, and a class of men which on the whole is the more numerous...

... poem; at best, a poem may be entirely free from them ; but the majority of poems contain their share of elementary errors which no skilled versifier could condone. If the spelling and grammar of the French poems was often weak, their prosody was equally so. Though the poets generally...

... the same period, Ford joyously em- braced practices, tenets, and ethics of the Queen’s love cult in court, where beauty in woman commanded worship and awe, and love and passion became life’s highest good condoning any action or thought. From this dual influence arose a unique drama, organically...

..., for a complete understanding. If this is to com- mit the “affective fallacy” and judge a work of art by its results, illuminat- ing what a play is by what it does, then I willingly condone the offense. J. L. STYAN University of Michigan Destiny...

...? Proust asserts that Diderot is not an immoralist, but a defender of marriage on the grounds of obligation to children. But what is the meaning of “marriage” in a concept which condones and encourages adultery and adulterine off - spring ? The fact is that Diderot did not understand...

... overemphasis upon tradition and established institutions. His devo- tion to the kingship, the satirist believes, forces him to condone and even support royal misrule that will hasten popular overthrow of monarchs. In prose poetic breathe the pious prayer To stars and visions...

..., let us remember, in the very paragraph in which he condones his published secular verse as being often virtuous and sometimes pious. Not once does he denounce his own published verse in the invidious terms which he hurls at his suppressed poems and at the “wilfully-published vanities...

... still not to be condoned, because she is an eight- eenth-century widow. Ned Ward’s “young Buxom Widow” who wants a “brisk, likely Man” was a stock literary (and subliterary) ROBERT A. ERICKSON 34 1 character.4 The following eighteenth-century...

...-believe.. . disagreed with his spiritual stomach” (p. 388). Strether moves from that unease to a contemplation of the intimacy itself. He finds himself “supposing everything” and, indeed, condoning it: “intimacy, at such a point, was like that-and what in the world else would one have wished...

..., according to Victorian standards, was deemed to be too negative, too harsh, too destructive; the distancing of our schol- arly Popearis, by way of contrast, seems more difficult to understand arid perhaps even to condone. While Arnold’s disinterestedness always reveals the conflicts...

... fetch everybody out ’bout right some o’ these ’ere times. He ain’t got nothin’ else to do, an’ it’s his lookout, an’ not ourn, what comes of ’em all” (Stowe 1966 : 614). Under cover of Sam’s folksy philosophizing, Stowe condones a universalism that relinquishes Protestant aspirations to convert...

... on violence and to its encroachments on individual integrity. He would, he pledged, never condone the subservience of all moral and ethical values to the “Raison d’Etat .” Wherefore, one cannot but conclude that the voice of the revolution- preaching Rolland reverberated dully indeed. Everything...

... Christian profession and Christian practice, especially by having Shylock apply such terms as “ours,” “mine,” and “dearly bought” to human beings or human flesh. After listening to this blunt account of the slavery practiced in Venice, we do not condone Shylock’s vindictive treatment of Antonio...