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Introducing
PORTRAITS
Power and Glory
vis-à-vis
Form and
Contentment
Biographical
Sketches by John
O’Loughlin
Which can be
previewed via
the link below the following brief Centretruths editorial:–
Comprised of
thirty-three biographical sketches of some of the twentieth-century's
most
influential and powerful people in both politics and the arts,
including
Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, de Valera,
Mussolini, de
Gaulle, André Malraux, Bertrand Russell,
Salvador
Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, and David Ben-Gurian, PORTRAITS – Power and
Glory
vis-à-vis
Form and Contentment (1985) seeks to provoke as well as to
praise,
and
should prove of interest to those who are curious to learn how various
exceptional men – and one exceptional woman – measure up to a Social
Transcendentalist analysis or, more correctly, to the scrutiny of
someone,
namely John O’Loughlin, who approaches
life from a
specific ideological standpoint with a view to measuring the
achievements of
others in relation to it. Although he
had dealt with some of the subjects, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Aldous Huxley, and Lawrence Durrell
before (see Becoming
and Being), Mr O’Loughlin’s
treatment of them here is much more subjectively critical and thus a
reflection, in large measure, of the way his thinking had progressed
during the
intervening three years since his earlier excursion into biography,
which,
characteristic of a more relativistic approach to literature typifying
him at
that time, also embraced a series of autobiographical sketches.
No such relativity applies here, however,
although the choice of both politicians and artists is anything but
absolutist,
as suggested by the subtitle. – A Centretruths Editorial
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