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“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”

World Country Political Universe Religious Media Fields Members Highest Mass Intellectual Research Rate Stupidity Artistic Appeals Scholar Judicial Moron Mass Media Best Place

Author:William C. Brown

“It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.”

Political Interesting Rights Movement Revolution Becoming Exciting Jazz Civil Rights Artistic Establishment Civil Rights Movement Civil Right Movement

Author:Archie Shepp

“The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.”

Men Political Universe Found Term Interest Pride Conscious Vote Individuality Artistic One Man Insignificant Public Interest Diseased

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.”

Art Two Political Criticism Artistic Criteria

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”

“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.”

Doe Stills Political Values Moral Intellectual Capitalism Determine Artistic Spheres Insistence American Capitalism

Author:William Pfaff

“Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.”

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Author:Cornel West

“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.”