Modern Age articles from June 2004

Modern Age archives from June 2004

The birds at dawn.(Brief Article)(Poem)
June 22, 2004... THE BIRDS AT DAWN Dawn birds are guilty by association with lovers, rogues, insomniacs and thieves. The nestlings call in blind annunciation and move the oak to shuffle in its leaves. Now the rain comes, pecking at the boards....

Origins and End of the New World Order.
June 22, 2004... EDITOR'S NOTE: "Origins and End of the New World Order," the text of which follows below, is a challenging examination of revolutionary trends in American foreign policy and practices in the twentieth century. Its author, Dr. Richard J....

Nikolai Berdiaev and spiritual freedom.(Reconsideration)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
June 22, 2004... "VICTORY OVER DEATH-BEARING TIME has been the fundamental theme of my life," says Berdiaev in the introduction to his Spiritual Autobiography. (1) Composed during the last decade of his life, this retrospective narrative is, like everything...

Ortega y Gasset's "Revolt" and the problem of mass rule.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... There is one fact which, whether for good or ill, is of utmost importance in the public life of Europe at the present moment. This fact is the accession of the masses to complete social power. As the masses, by definition, neither...

The long drink.(Brief Article)(Poem)
June 22, 2004... THE LONG DRINK Water is never the chosen drink-- until you reach that dry end-point in thirst where only the most basic element will quench it. Cold water is the body's drink: everything else is the vanity of taste buds: those...

The alienated moralist in An Enemy of the People.(Three Literary Studies: No. 1)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... AN INDIVIDUAL WHO DEFIES society because of his moral convictions, and consequently suffers for his independent and unbending stand, is not an unfamiliar phenomenon, whether in the annals of human history or in the experience of contemporary...

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: "a well of tears".(Three Literary Studies: No. 2)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... I THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1918 is also on occasion referred to as "The Great War for Civilization." It was a commonly held belief that this was a war to save civilization from destruction and, in effect, to preserve and to strengthen the...

Thomas Carper: miniaturist of the grand scale.(Three Literary Studies: No. 3)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
June 22, 2004... GETTING IT RIGHT For D.A. He sits before the blank page of his mind, Adrift in possibility. A thought Is deeply felt, but masked beneath a white Opaqueness which, he senses, may be brought Into...

Acton's political trajectory.(The Political Thought of Lord Acton: The English Catholics in the Nineteenth Century)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Political Thought of Lord Acton: The English Catholics in the Nineteenth Century, by Rocco Pezzimenti, Leominster, U.K.: Gracewing, 2001. 295 pp. JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTION (1834-1902) attracted the attention of many English...

Creating meaningful cities.(Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy, by David Mayernik, Boulder: Westview Press, 2003. 274 pp. THE IDEA BEHIND David Mayernik's Timeless Cities--that the urban realm is the touchstone of human achievement and...

Suggestions of brilliance.(The Meaning of Conservatism, 3rd ed.)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Meaning of Conservatism, by Roger Scruton, 3rd ed., South Bend: Saint Augustine's Press, 2002. MANY REVIEWS PROCLAIM that a book is indispensable for a particular readership, but this book actually is. Anyone remotely interested in...

Making kids feel good.(The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem, by Maureen Stout, Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2000. 313 pp. MAUREEN STOUT'S important new book contains a quotation from Winston Churchill...

A stroll with Albert Jay Nock.(Comments)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
June 22, 2004... Taking his inspiration from those Russians who seemed superfluous to their autocratic nineteenth-century society and sought inspiration in the private sphere, even to the point of writing largely for their desk drawers, Nock...

Nathan Marsh Pusey: an appreciation.(Biography)
June 22, 2004... NATHAN MARSH PUSEY, who died in November 2001, led Harvard University during one of its most illustrious periods--the 1950s and 1960s. In Harvard lore, the official "golden age" of the university was the latter half of the presidency of Charles...