Sim Johnston

The New Conservatism

•

I N THE TWENTY years since Lionel Trilling made his famous comment that, as an intellectual tradition, American conservatism was

•

O SWALD SPENGLER ONCE SAID that a sure sign of the decline of the West would be its increasing preoccupation

•

I N HIS LATER YEARS, when Sir Winston was completing his Great Man Act by flashing V. signs to the

•

T HE LITERARY MARKET place these days seems totally absorbed in the trappings of art rather than art itself. The

•

U ntil recently, at least, it has been men like Henry Ford and his dull-eyed descendants in the corporate board

•

L ike most American playwrights, Tennessee Williams has built his career by exploiting certain characters and situations which he made

•

E arthlight is a rock and roll good time show that combines music, mime, movement, and a good deal of

•

434 pp. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY is never boring, you can say that much. He has moxie, and no suspicion that

•

RHINOCEROS is the play that established Ionesco's international reputation, and it is still one of his best. It is the

•

Little, Brown and Company. 472 pp. $7.95. MAN'S first landing on the moon made hardly a dent in the American