In The Twentieth Century Our Highest Praise

Beware Of Charisma . . . Representative Men; Was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 Phrase For The Great Men In A Democracy . . . Is There Some Common Quality Among These Representative Men Who Have Been Most Successful As Our Leaders? I Call It The Need To Be Authentic-or, As Our Dictionaries Tell Us, Conforming To Fact And Therefore Worthy Of Trust, Reliance Or Belief. While The Charismatic Has An Uncanny Outside Source Of Strength, The Authentic Is Strong Because He Is What He Seems To Be.

A Best-seller Was A Book Which Somehow Sold Well Because It Was Selling Well.

America Has Been A Land Of Dreams. A Land Where The Aspirations Of People From Countries Cluttered With Rich, Cumbersome, Aristocratic, Ideological Pasts Can Reach For What Once Seemed Unattainable. Here They Have Tried To Make Dreams Come True. Yet Now... We Are Threatened By A New And Particularly American Menace. It Is Not The Menace Of Class War, Of Ideology, Of Poverty, Of Disease, Of Illiteracy, Or Demagoguery, Or Of Tyranny, Though These Now Plague Most Of The World. It Is The Menace Of Unreality.

The Cities Of Italy Are Now Deluged With Droves Of These Creatures [tour Groups], For They Never Separate, And You See Them, Forty In Number, Pouring Along A Street With Their Director - Now In Front, Now At The Rear, Circling Them Like A Sheep Dog - And Really The Process Is As Like Herding As May Be.

Knowledge Is Not Simply Another Commodity. On The Contrary. Knowledge Is Never Used Up. It Increases By Diffusion And Grows By Dispersion.