VERSE:

...What dis- From ignorance, and thereby learn to give...

...futurist plotting the course of history references to recent writings of Senator (he predicted that Hitler would win Fulbright (The Crippled Giant), Arrogance, violence, manipulation, against England, later that Hitler would former Senator Goodell (Political commercialism...

...have a new sense of mission, a misAmong the American writers, how- Parents confronted by an ill-natured sion ever, "with their glittering uniforms adolescent comfort themselves with reto be achieved, not by reason but and enormous salaries," he never met membering what an amenable child he by power-force at home to whip one who had ever heard of it...

...He said that our na- its arrogance, its violence, its pasicans...

...Asked to ex- tues, its optimisms, its faiths, its his own country, Orwell thought he plain the Watergate mentality, Henry limitations, so perhaps Mr...

...Nixon saw the codification of the power prin- Steele Commager published last sum- is a representative figure of conciple, the might-is-right cult, the polit- mer a long essay in the New York temporary United States, reflecting ical "realism" admired by the Amer- Review of Books...

...But now we ciation of his paper, the Tribune...

...Commonweal: 137...

...In Burnham, whose theory and impulses were sound and generous, ment, faithfully reflecting its virprediction were vigorously contested in though presently defiled...

...If, as he says, the Yank mags According to Commager, the young Orwell's spirits were not raised by were written by men who "brood end- nation we used to be had impulses his own contacts, admittedly few...

...Bolstering his sion for manipulation, its comIn spite of Burnham's low scores as a analysis of what's-wrong-with-us by mercialism...

...its seedy wastes police systems, dictatorial methods, the Remain to speak of half of what we know...

...tional disease is power...

...turbed Orwell most was the fear that An apple serves our purposes: it tastes "such holders of power and privilege Of death, although at first it was a show are perfectly willing to accept secret Of youthful innocence...

...Burnham believed (The Managerial Revolution) in the EDWARD PROFFITT coming of a world of three managerial conglomerates or super-states, con- SIBLINGS: AN ENJAMBED SONNET tinually at war with one another...

...of responsibility to establish an emthat he was touched and pleased when For the next five years, 1984 was on his pire of reason, a model and a moral a French journalist spoke with appre- mind, quintessential violence to brain example of the world...

...teen references to James Burnham, the for them, search the sacred documents . . . If Jefferson is a representaAmerican social scientist and philoso- for evidence that the country's youthful tive figure of the U.S...

...politics...

...falsification of history-as long as 'it is An apple serves as well for love: it shakes on our side.'" Upon its bough, but clings to ripeness...

...for the winner and a belief that "whoever is winning at the moment will al- 0000000 ways be invincible...

...In a lessly on violence," he brooded on it called "Jeffersonian," a national sense diary entry, after the war, he says also...

...Orwell took Burnham seriously...

...He finished Animal Farm in 1943...

...slow The brutalities, the sadisms and per- To change its colors, still at last it breaks versions of Yank mags, American Its pulpy round: its seeds speak that we grow...

...If these are indeed new would launch a third world war very analyst David Wise (The Politics of qualities, evidences of "changes in the soon after the end of the second one), Lying), Commager concluded that American character during the past Orwell thought he read in Burnham a "responsibility for our crisis is rooted twenty-five years," George Orwell, a characteristically American respect for in changes in the American character, prescient man who died early in 1950, power, an equating of greatness with the American mind, American habits may be credited' with taking note of cruelty and dishonesty, an admiration or traits over the last quarter-century, them early, and regretting them also...

...used to be...

...Historians confronting recalcitrants into line, force abroad The Collected Essays contain four- present realities and asked to account to whip lesser breeds into line...

...Nixon and dingy, poverty-stricken country," and sold out for "the chance to get their his associates and in the current style they did not conceal their contempt own hands on the whip," then all was of U.S...

...and a national disease defeat Russia, and finally that Russia Prisoners in America), and political called power...

...but if the intellectuals bought Ignorance, and teach us what we are...

...lost...

...movies, popular literature were bad Love and death are sibling counters to our enough...

...a world in which older forms of domi- In ways foreseen yet unforeseen, we live nation give way to rule by self-per- From day to day surprised by what we know petuating elites: managers, technicians, We know, but did not know at all: we grow bureaucrats, intellectuals...

...from the natives...

...enlightenpher...

...and body...