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...inspirat din situa ţia pe dos care exista în ţar ă. Am pornit din politic, social şi - treptat - am ajuns în literatur ă, art ă, filozofie şi chiar ... ...pside- down situation” that existed in the country. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, philosophy, even science.... ...o invertida que existia no país [NT: na Romênia]. Eu comecei com politica, social e imediatamente fui a literatura, arte, filosofia a até mesmo ciên... ...situation à l`envers qui existait dans le pays. Je suis parti du politique, social et immédiatement je suis arrivé à la littèrature, l`art, la philos... ...n la “situació al revés” que existía en el país. Yo empecé con la política social e immediatamente fui a la literatura, arte, filosofia, incluso cie... ...nian) (The Paradoxist Literary Movement), USA, 1992. A group of literary critics (J. – M. Levenard, I. Rotaru, A. Skemer) collected all multicultu...

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...s drug abuse and teen pregnancy while increasing academic achievement and social responsibility. Can you see how self-esteem, or the lack of it, ca... ...nd time, they do things that remove themselves from the realm of positive social activity. They drink or take drugs in an attempt to block out the ... ... from being an alcoholic at the point of suicide. Imagine that! How many social programs that strive to combat alcoholism, depression or any other ... .... I am absolutely overwhelmed at the depth of her giving. She has taken a social statistic that is virtually incomprehensible in human terms and ha... ...important for you to know that you are a pretty nice person. None of your critics will support you. Remember Terry Cole, Whittaker's book on the su...

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...’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Quintius nam’d of his neglecte... ...s found in Aeschylus, Supp. 356, and is there also scarce understood by the critics. Respect these wreaths, that crown your city’s poop. v. 99. The...

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...ries of exegetes of the paradoxist movement and smarandachian works- literary critics and historians, writers and admirers or only sympathizers that... ... of Florentin Smarandache himself is followed by a limited number of literary critics which manifest a kind of ambiguity (or even suspicion!) regard... ...ry style having its main roots in the two realities analyzed before: politico-social and literary. The same idea met, at Adrian Marino and C. M. Popa... ... of “the absolute lyricism”. The frequent contradictions and paradoxes of the social life would have determined Florentin Smarandache to try (and to... ...t emancipation and freedom, provoked him a normal reaction of adversity in his social attitude and of negation (“no”) in his literary creation plan. ... ...ents of... absolute) in-adaptation we easily guess not a handicap of a psycho-social nature, but a displayed nonconformism of an avowed verticality, ... ...y exegetics, n.n.) until now are unsatisfactory. On the one hand the literary critics who did not pass through mathematics could not detect but an e... ...field of the letters: the paradoxism. In spite of the fact that some literary critics and theorists pretend to ignore the new movement and its main ... ...olume before 1990. Seeming that he didn’t want to forget the actual politico- social conditions that generated the movement, the author begins the v...

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...Biological systems obey the same order- increasing (natural) laws as do physical and social ones. We are part of the Universe in the sense that we ar... ...: "Bestowed Entities". These are entities whose existence is bestowed upon them by social agreement between conscious agents. But this definition i... ...ss. Religion and money are two examples of entities which owe their existence to a social agreement between conscious entities - yet they don't str... ...s pertinent and our definition should be refined accordingly. We must distinguish "Social Entities" (like money or religion) from "Bestowed Entitie... ...creates a change in the Language Field. Such a change can lead to a conflict with a social norm, for instance, or with a norm, a personal value, or ... ... exact (physical) sciences. Such diatribes frequently offer a sad glimpse into the critics' own ignorance. They have little idea what makes a theor... ... they mock Freud's trilateral model of the psyche (the id, ego, and superego), his critics do just that - they relate to his theoretical constructs... ...self would have attributed many of these diatribes to the defense mechanisms of his critics. Projection, resistance, and displacement do seem to be ...

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...rtlett’s writing has been praised by many leading authors, reviewers, and critics, among them: JAMES MICHENER, novelist: “I am much taken with Bar... ... the Owl Cries, has been widely acclaimed by many authors, reviewers, and critics, among them James Michener, Pearl S. Buck, Ford Madox Ford, Charle... ...d Schepp Foundation, the Edward MacDowell Association, the New School for Social Research, the Huntington Hartford Foundation, the Montalvo Foundati...

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... sumptuous and fascinating in many ways, has been deemed senseless by some critics and to me it lacks a soul. To understand it in Cosmo-Artistic ter... ...his, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book in Italian, entitl... ...hey are recognized by the other and vice-versa. The same thing is true for social interactions and relationships in general. When the narcissistic w... ...produce every sort of handicraft and create every type of works, familial, social, cultural, and in particular those works that we call works of art...

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Excerpt: Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw.

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...PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...tronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...l opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW N.B. The Euripidean verses in the second act of Maj... ...t Potts plays an enormous part in ourselves and in the world, and that the social problem is not a problem of story-book heroes of the older pattern, ... ... Schopenhauer, or even knew whether he was a philosopher or a chemist, the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties brought me into contact, both li... ...ontact, both literary and personal, with Mr Ernest Belfort Bax, an English Socialist and philosophic essayist, whose handling of modern feminism would... ...hould prevent every right- minded man from at once doing on principle. The Socialists were naturally shocked, being for the most part morbidly moral p... ... of society to the conflict of races, his theory made some sensation among Socialists—that is, among the only people who were seri- ously thinking abo...

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...musement of startling all but the stron- gest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No author who has ev... ...quake shock to the foundations of mo- rality which sends a pallid crowd of critics into the street shrieking that the pillars of society are cracking ... ... any consternation among the general public. Anybody can upset the theatre critics, in a turn of the wrist, by substituting for the romantic commonpla... ... Warren’s Profession to an audience of cleri- cal members of the Christian Social Union and of women well experienced in Rescue, Temperance, and Girls... ...hereas plays in which these humors and fascinations are discarded, and the social problems created by sex seriously faced and dealt with, inevitably i... ...inks me a libertine, and the nether popular critic, who thinks me a prude. Critics of all grades and ages, middle-aged fathers of families no less tha... ...f instincts and temperaments in conflict with each other and with a flinty social problem that never yields an inch to mere sentiment. I go further th... ...om their family relationships and from his “conventionally unconventional” social code. The sarcasm is lost on the critics: they, saturated with the s... ...reputable daughter who cannot endure her. Her indifference to the ultimate social consequences of her means of making money, and her discovery of that...

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...he mouth of Mrs Knox I have delivered on them the judgment of her God. The critics whom I have lampooned in the induction to this play under the names... ...ch Mr Claude King so suc- cessfully simulated his personal appearance. The critics whom I did not introduce were somewhat hurt, as I should have been ... ...In so far as it was effectual, it operated as a measure of relief to those critics and playgoers who are so obsessed by my strained legendary reputati... ...l, I just ran in to unlock everything. SAVOYARD. Oh, you mean the dramatic critics. M’yes. I suppose theres a smoking room? THE COUNT. My study is ava... ...esent she wanted was a private performance of it with real actors and real critics. SAVOYARD. Yes: thats what staggered me. It was easy enough to enga... ...k as regular as clockwork. It looks to me as if Gilbey’s trying to drop me socially. Well, why should he do that if he hasnt heard? MRS KNOX. I wonder... ...his position to consider. To turn his daughter out of doors would ruin him socially. KNOX. Oh, youve put her up to that, have you? And where did you c... ... have noticed, sir, that Denmark Hill thinks that the higher you go in the social scale, the less sincerity is allowed; and that only tramps and riff-... ... you make love to. GILBEY. [aghast] My boy is to marry this woman and be a social outcast! 66 Fanny’s First Play JUGGINS. Your boy and Miss Delaney w...

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...eld from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified,... ... the experi ence of life. That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex t... ...osened than any of the rest by the progress the great modern spiritual and social tran sition; nor suppose that the barbarisms to which men cling lon... ...ituting the government of society; if, after trying various other modes of social organisation—the government of women over men, equality between the ... ...of inequality never was the result of deliberation, or forethought, or any social ideas, or any notion whatever of what con duced to the benefit of h... ...ts main features, an imita tion of men’s. Why is the Roman literature, as critics proclaim to satiety, not original, but an imitation of the Greek? S...

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...leisure class resemble one another also in certain other features of their social structure and manner of life. They are small groups and of a simple ... ... follow that these are the smallest of existing communities, or that their social structure is in all respects the least differentiated; nor does the ... ...ised as the salient and decisive features of a class of activities or of a social class at 9 Veblen one stage of culture will not retain the same rel... ...g habituation, it becomes the able-bodied man’s accred- ited office in the social economy to kill, to destroy such com- petitors in the struggle for e... ...out in an emulative demonstration of force. During that primitive phase of social development, when the community is still habitually peaceable, perha... ...ese na- tional or popular costumes are in most cases adjudged by competent critics to be more becoming, more artistic, than the fluctuating styles of ...

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...n Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attempt at a socialist, military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that ... ...nd in starvation, crushing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social experiments and reform ob- solete institutions, in snobbery, jobbery... ...ed too far; and everybody who rebels against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic ... ...ic orthodoxy beyond human endur- ance—beyond even German endurance. I am a Socialist and a Democrat myself, the hero of a hundred platforms, one of th... ...f, the hero of a hundred platforms, one of the leaders of the most notable Socialist organizations in England. I am as conspicuous in English Socialis... ...and political mugwump that the term “art- ist” seems to suggest to so many critics and amateurs—that is, a creature in their own lazy likeness—he need... ...s definitely conscious of his thesis as I. All the stupid people, and some critics who, though not stupid, had not themselves written what the Germans... ...d its pro- gressions saturate themselves with the emotion which (as modern critics are a little apt to forget) springs as warmly from our delicately t...

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...trine of Jesus has not in all that time been put into political or general social practice. I am no more a Christian than Pilate was, or you, gentle r... ...zed as plainly as he the necessity for suppressing attacks on the existing social order, however corrupt that order might be, by people with no knowle... ...e notion that Jesus died, as some are in the habit of declar- ing, for his social and political opinions. There have been many martyrs to those opinio... ..., much as certain well-to-do young gentle- men forty years ago “joined the Socialists.” As far as estab- lished Jewry was concerned, he burnt his boat... ...now becomes arrogant, dictatorial, and even abusive, never replying to his critics without an in- sulting epithet, and even cursing a fig-tree which d... ...e been made, or else have had to confess to the Jews, who were the keenest critics of the Christians, that Jesus was either an impostor or the victim ... ...tures and resounding lies. Now those who, like myself, see the Barabbasque social organization as a failure, and are convinced that the Life Force (or...

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...y provides children with edifying adult society, or that the fam- ily is a social unit. The family is in that, as in so many other respects, a humbug.... ...ions and imposition of snob- bery on children as a necessary part of their social training. The result of our economic folly is that we are a nation o... ...- strained by law at the suggestion of Robert Owen, the founder of English Socialism. Most of this legislation will become an insufferable restraint u... ...ors or modern correspondence classes with gramophones. We go to them to be socialized; to ac- quire the hall mark of communal training; to become citi... ...s; to learn manners and become un- challengeable ladies and gentlemen. The social pressure which effects these changes should be that of persons who h... ... disagreeable noise if there is a thread of music in the middle of it (few critics of the phonograph seem to be conscious of the very considerable mec...

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...re on all other libertines, and excessively conventional in professions of social principle. What is more, these professions are not hypocritical: the... ...g about it, are gravely declared to be abnormal or physically defective by critics of crushing unadventurousness and domestication. French authors of ... ...are often needlessly magnified by penalties, ranging from various forms of social ostracism to long sentences of penal servitude, which would be seen ...

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...sung and gone, The famous men of war have fought, The famous speculators thought, The famous players, sculptors, wrought, The famous painters fill’d t... ... the cumber’d plain Clearing a stage, Scattering the past about, Comes the new age. Bards make new poems, Thinkers new schools, Stat... ...The past, its mask of union on, Had ceased to live and thrive. The past, its mask of union gone, Say, is it more alive? “‘Your creeds are dead, your...

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...ugh. His name, long familiar everywhere, has now awakened the attention of critics in all European countries to his works: he is studied wherever true... ...and whoever among us shall step forward, with such knowledge as our common critics have of Goethe, to enlighten 5 Goethe the European public, by cont... ...in which Corneille and Racine are obliged to defend themselves against the critics and public. Here at least I plainly saw that no man knew what he wa... ..., I say, even in his own day, was not able to get on with the amateurs nor critics. Through all this I became more perplexed than ever; and after havi... ...e here in the majority, yet I would have them consider whether it is not a social duty to take thought for the whole. Why do we wish to assemble in su... ...en went on with constantly increasing liveliness and gayety to compare the social virtues with the tender senti- ments. “The latter,” said he, “can ne... ...se to sever and abolish these most charming little segregations during our social hours. I have,” he contin- ued, “already provided for the execution ... ...they excused themselves by saying that it was quite conformable to the new social regulation to outshine the ten- der glances of the heavenly moon by ... ...side, he had allowed himself to be seduced into similar labors. Our little social excursions, parties of plea- sure, and the contingencies that occurr...

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...y’s view of life gradually shifted from that of an aristocrat to that of a social reformer, her own remained unaltered; with the result that at the en... ...mbines in a curious way a firm belief in the omnipotence and wisdom of his social superiors with a rooted distrust of their inten tions regarding him... ...r, there can be no question but that in Russia it held and holds true. The social condition of Russia is like a tideless sea, whose sullen quiescence ... ...hts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by its main principles and b... ...ation and rejuvenation of human nature, going far towards the levelling of social inequalities. But to in oculate the landed proprietors of Russia as... ...he misunderstandings of Tolstoy’s later years have also been attributed by critics, and by those who hate or belittle his ideas, to the influ ence of...

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...d perfect persons. We want men and women who shall reno- vate life and our social state, but we see that most na- tures are insolvent, cannot satisfy ... ... his skin,” is sound philosophy. All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst ... ... given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on marriage, on socialism, on se- 84 Essays cret societies, on the college, on parties and... ... being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social in- stincts. For though the celestial rapture falling out of heaven ... ... Nature so poor but she gives me this joy several times, and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relations; and, as many thoughts in... ... majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture. The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from ...