Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists (Radical Thinkers)
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    Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists (Radical Thinkers)
    Raymond Williams
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    ASIN: 1844675807

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    The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.
    The Conformist
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    The Conformist
    Alberto Moravia
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    ASIN: 1883642655
    Release Date: 1999-11-01

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    SECRECY AND SILENCE are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned to kill his former professor, now in exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state, and falls in love with a strange, compelling woman; his life is torn open - and with it the corrupt heart of Fascism. Moravia equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychological needs of his protagonist for whom conformity becomes an obsession in a life that has included parental neglect, an oddly self-conscious desire to engage in cruel acts, and a type of male beauty which, to Clerici's great distress, other men find attractive.
    "Moravia brings to light the devil in the flesh and in the psyche." -- The Atlantic Monthly

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    5 out of 5 stars One of several brilliant novels by Moravia.......2007-06-11

    The Conformist is a psychologically complex novelistic study of an Italian fascist, although not necessarily a typical fascist, done in an existential style with intense interior monologues and introspection by Alberto Moravia's protagonist, Marcello Clerici.

    No doubt Moravia intended Marcello as the conformist, but ironically it is his wife Giulia who nearly always conforms to what is considered normal behavior and who harbors uncritically knee jerk beliefs and opinions formed by church and state. In fact, that is part of the reason he married her. In contrast, Marcello struggles mightily with what he considers his abnormal tendencies. As a child he killed lizards for sport as any boy might, but felt uneasy about the wanton slaughter, and so sought from a friend and his mother some indication that killing lizards was okay. Later he kills a cat, although this is mostly accidental, and as a young teenager shots a homosexual limo driver named Lino. He feels something akin to consternation for these actions, not guilt exactly, but an unease since doing such things is not what he thinks normal people do.

    It is his need to be--or at least to appear--"normal" that drives Marcello to conform to society's mores and persuades him to embrace fascism. He only feels really at ease when he sees himself as part of the common herd, on the installment plan, buying ordinary furniture, living in an apartment like a thousand others, having a wife and children, reading the newspapers, going to work, etc. He is not a peasant of course, but an educated functionary in the Italian Secret Service, a man with impeccable manners who seldom says more than is absolutely necessary.

    The idea that fascists in general follow the herd and adopt a superficial and uncultured world view is no doubt largely correct, but the essence of fascism is the belief in authoritarian rule, the stratification of society, intolerance of diversity, and a willingness, even an eagerness to use force and violence to obtain such ends. The psychology underlying Moravia's portrait is the idea that Marcello sees in himself the violent and selfish tendencies and so it is only natural that he should adopt a political philosophy that condones and acts out such tendencies.

    Moravia treats fascism in the person of Marcello more kindly than I believe he imagined he would when he began the novel, given Moravia's hatred of the fascist movement that seduced much of Europe following the First World War. But this is the necessary consequence of being an objective novelist. In drawing a living, breathing portrait of Marcello, Moravia allows us to see him as a complex person with strengths and weaknesses who deals with the trials of life sometimes in a despicable way, and sometimes, indeed often, in a way that most of us would choose were we in his shoes. Therefore it is impossible not to identify with him to some degree. It is an artifact of Moravia's artistry that we do in fact in the end identify with Marcello and may even realize that in his situation, we too might have embraced fascism or at least tolerated it.

    A secondary theme in the novel is that of unrequited love or of desire that is not returned. All of the main characters, Marcello, Lino, Giulia, Quadri and Lina love someone who does not return their love. Marcello briefly falls madly in love with Lina who is a lesbian who despises him. Lina in turn is desperately in love with Giulia who only has eyes for her husband, who does not really love her. The inability of the characters to love the one who loves them is played out partly through a disparity in personality and political belief, and partly through differing sexuality. Lino and his latter-day incarnation in an old British homosexual who drives around Paris picking up indigent young men seldom if ever find their love returned although they might temporarily quench their desire. No one in the novel experiences love both in the giving and the receiving.

    Part of Marcello's unease with himself comes from his ambivalent sexuality. He cannot return the intense passion that Giulia feels for him although apparently he does manage to perform his husbandly duties adequately. Perhaps even more to the point, he seems to project a need for the "abnormal" experience. He is twice mistaken for a homosexual, and he falls in love with a homosexual of the opposite sex--thus the "Lino" and the "Lina" of his life. Marcello seems to have a blindness about invert sexuality just as he has a blindness about human morality. He is a man who does not what he thinks is right but what others think is right. He fears his natural impulses. Moravia illustrates this by occasionally having him nearly give into what he feels inside, as in the case of Lina, only to have him realize that to act from his heart is dangerous.

    In the final analysis Marcello finds that "the normality that he had sought after with such tenacity for so many years...was now revealed as a purely external thing entirely made up of abnormalities" (quote from near the beginning of Chapter Nineteen).

    Moravia (born Alberto Pincherle) is in my opinion one of the great novelists of the 20th century and The Conformist is representative of his best work. Incidentally this was made into a beautiful film by Bernardo Bertolucci while not entirely true to the novel, is nonetheless very much worth seeing.

    4 out of 5 stars Good .......2006-06-26

    Interesting novel on Italian fascism during the first half of the 20th century, and the life of a boy/man without many characteristics / emotions. Not an easy read. The end is macabre and sticks to the memory.

    5 out of 5 stars Astounding !! True realism embalmed in pre-war surrealism!.......2002-06-21

    I tried watching the movie AFTER the book and I had NO patience with the movie, though directed by a person for whom I have great respect. Moravia is a lyricist and this prose poem of a novel describes some very hard facts of boyhood during fascist times in Italy, and more. The boy becomes a man, a conformist, due to an incredible mistake. And a mistaken mistake at that! Add to this an almost abusive father, who is institutionalized later in the novel, his lovely decadent drug addict mother with her 15 small dogs, and her chauffer, of course. A most harrowing, yet not disbeleivable, ending winds up the novel in just two pages. More from Moravia! Get this book back in print! For the scenes in the Paris clubs, it is alone worth reading this fascinating book. I read it two years ago and it has stayed with me, unlike many of my other favotite novels. This book is incomparable; it is not for the conformists, nor is it for the faint of heart!

    3 out of 5 stars Hard to understand at times, but a good novel overall.......2001-02-20

    This novel is fairly difficult to follow at times, but the entire story comes together at the end. You do not have to really be into Moravia's other novels to enjoy this one, but you do have to have some patience. The good parts of the novel are only made better by the rather dull beginning. Read it if you have some free time and you want to get a taste of Moravia's talent.

    2 out of 5 stars Movie is better than book.......2001-02-03

    This is one of the few instances that I have found in which the movie version of a novel is better than the novel itself. This is a contrived work through and through, and one can understand why Bertolucci completely changed the ending for the movie. Moravia here displays his utter sentimentality with an admixture of arm-chair psychology that is truly laughable....and this is probably his best novel.
    Emigrants in Chains A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607-1776
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      Emigrants in Chains A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607-1776
      Peter Wilson Coldham
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      Few colonizing powers can have relied so heavily and consistently on the wholesale deportation of their prison population as did England through two-and-a-half centuries of imperial expansion. By the time America made her Declaration of Independence in 1776, the prisons of England had disgorged some 50,000 of their inmates to the colonies, most of them destined to survive and, with their descendants, to populate the land of their exile. In a story largely untold until now--certainly never told as well--Coldham's groundbreaking study demonstrates once and for all that the recruitment of labor for the American colonies was achieved in large measure through the emptying of English jails, workhouses, brothels, and houses of correction. Supported by a massive array of documentary evidence and first-hand testimony, the book focuses on the emergence and use of transportation as a means of dealing with an unwanted population, dwelling at length on the processes involved, the men charged with the administration of the system of transportation or engaged in transportation as a business, then proceeding with a fascinating look at the transportees themselves, their lives and hapless careers, and their reception in the colonies. The whole unhappy saga of enforced transportation is here recounted with such force and eloquence that it is bound to set some popular notions about the peopling of the American colonies on their head.
      Just My Luck?: A Memoir From a Habitual Non-Conformist
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      Just My Luck?: A Memoir From a Habitual Non-Conformist
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      Was it really just luck that took Irv Zuckerman from a Depression-era childhood in a Brighton Beach rooming house, through a life that should have ended at 20 in a French forest, to the boardrooms of some of the world's mightiest corporations and beyond? Or was it something else-a series of marvelous coincidences unexplainable by any rational means?

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      5 out of 5 stars An extraordinary trip through life!.......2006-12-30

      A memoir that takes us through an extraordinary trip through the life and love of a man who wonders why he is still here to tell the tale. Was it luck or was it something greater? The author makes us wonder about things that we will never quite understand.
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        Careers for Non-Conformists
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            4 out of 5 stars The Motocross Conformist.......2007-04-10

            I found the book to be very interesting in that it gave me insight to a sport that is not well known to the general public but does have a devoted group of competitors. After reading the book written by an individual who actually participated in the sport you get a feel for the many obstacles faced to bring the sport to the level it enjoys in other countries. It was a good read.
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                Batchelder, Batcheller genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a leading non-conformist, who settled the town of New Hampton, N.H., ... John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts
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                Hope's Captive
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                Hope's Captive
                Kate Lyon
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                Zach McCallister will use any means to find his son, a Cheyenne captive, including deceiving Caroline Whitley, purported to be the wife of Little Wolf, the Cheyenne chief. Distracted by her beauty and impressed by her courage, Zach struggles to resist her allure, believing her to be another man's wife. Caroline tells herself she only needs Zach to help take food and medicine to the dying Cheyenne, but dreads his response when he finds out her marriage is a lie.

                Cold and starving, the Cheyenne follow Little Wolf through running battles—enduring sorrow, murder and mutiny—as he leads them to the Powder River country they love, hoping that-if they can elude the thousands of soldiers pursuing them-they'll be allowed to stay. Can Zach set aside duty to aid the Cheyenne in return for their help finding his son? Will Caroline relinquish her fears, and entrust her scarred body to Zach's hands and her soul to his love, or will they all remain Hope's Captive?

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                3 out of 5 stars Just okay... *Spoliers.......2007-03-08

                This just didn't do it for me. While well researched, the fictional story threaded through the historical one was well...quite boring. Zach's periodic passion to search for his son felt contrived. He was never around when the boy was growing up and his reasonings for not caring for his deceased wife seemed equally contrived. She was spoiled and sought the comfort of another man after years of emotional abandonment doesn't make her all that bad to me. How on earth did he missed her being spoiled before marrying her? Bottomline, he was an absentee father and husband and that lost him heroic points in my eyes. The whole I'm on a goverment mission to find my son-didn't make sense . If you're looking for your son-then you're looking for your son-why is that a goverment sponsored mission? Then the whole traveling after Lone Wolf's band-seemed to me they were just walking behind them and was purposely missing all the fighting. How were they missing all this if they were literally a day behind-and how on earth did they managed not to catch up to two hundred people who were walking? With a small band of people it wouldn't have taken long to discover if his son was there or not and why would they take HIS son and why wouldn't they give him back if they had him? Paragraphs of Zach feeling eyes on him and a person afraid he was getting close to the truth was laughable. Why would they be afraid of him? These people were already in the fight for their lives and were defeating large bands of military men-but they were afraid of him? C'mon. In the middle of the book, it just became difficult to plow through. I like Caroline as a character and I liked some elements of Zach's character but for some reason-Zach and Caroline didn't blow me away as a couple. Ms. Lyon is a strong writer-but in this particular book, the characters needed something more. They started off well-they just didn't maintain their initial spark.

                4 out of 5 stars Great New Author.......2006-03-10

                I liked the story, the characters, and the writing was strong for a new author. I look forward to future books by Kate Lyon. The only negative thing in the whole book was the fact that the heroine was constantly saying "I can take care of myself" when in reality, she needed the hero's help to get out of several situations. This is very annoying. Other than that, I give this book high marks and I am normally very selective about the authors I read.

                5 out of 5 stars Fabulous Blend of History, Emotional Impact and Romance.......2006-01-07

                Kate Lyon's newest historical romance is a compelling read. She packs a triple punch in accurate details of history, well-developed emotional characters and a romance that fulfills readers' expectations for a great story. There are few writers of Native American romance that can deliver, and Kate Lyon ranks up there with the best. Don't miss this author's newest offering!

                5 out of 5 stars Outstanding!.......2005-12-26

                This tale begins in the year 1878. Zach McCallister believes his son, Luke, has been taken captive by the Northern Cheyenne. Zach's main objective is to locate and rescue Luke. To accomplish this Zach hires on as a guide to a lady believed to be the white wife of their chief.

                Caroline Whitley owes her life to the Northern Cheyenne's leader, Little Wolf. She knows that they currently reside at the Darlington Agency (a reservation) and that they are dying by the hundreds from malaria and dysentery. To repay them, Caroline packs a wagon full with medicine and blankets for them and hires Zach to guide her to them.

                Little Wolf, along with almost two hundred women and children and less than one hundred men to defend them, have left the reservation. They are determined to reach the Powder River country they love and call their home. The Army had called in a special unit of cavalry to keep the Northern Cheyenne on the reservation. The Army goes after the small band of Cheyenne.

                As Zach and Caroline travel together, they slowly learn about each other. Zach not only meets and learns that the Northern Cheyenne are honorable, no matter how much he wishes to hate them, but he also finds himself attracted to the spitfire that hired him as guide. If only they could trust each other.

                ***** The author adds another young boy into this story, Yellow Swallow. This child is a half-breed. Just wait until you find out who his parents were! In fact, the author has added quite a few surprises for her readers within this exciting novel. Everything is historically correct and it is obvious that much research went into making this tale. In the back of the novel, within the "Author's Note", Kate Lyon gives a brief report of what happened to the Little Wolf and the others mentioned in this book. History, romance, and harsh reality come together to make an unforgettable adventure that will live on in the memories of all readers. Best I've read in a long while! *****

                Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

                5 out of 5 stars fabulous historical romance .......2005-12-24

                In 1878 the disease ridden Oklahoma Reservation was no place to live so Chief Little Wolf moves the entire Northern Cheyenne tribe back to their original home in the Montana Territory in spite of the hardship that the trek will cause. As the Indians journey northward, dodging soldiers and mourning those who fail to make it, military officer Zach McCallister believes the Cheyenne have captured his son Luke. He plans to desert if necessary and follow the tribe on his own to somehow liberate his offspring or die in the attempt.

                In Dodge City, Kansas to increase his chance of success Zach offers to "guide" Caroline Whitely, allegedly Lone Wolf's wife, when she tries to deliver needed medicine to the beleaguered tribe. They view the Cheyenne differently. She sees noble people, especially Little Wolf who rescued her from the Kiowa, struggling to survive under suppression; he believes these are savages who wantonly massacre innocent people and kidnap children and young women. As the days pass, Zach falls in love with Caroline, but she does not trust him; he knows she has good cause because he will betray her to free Luke.

                HOPE'S CAPTIVE, the sequel to the wonderful TIME'S CAPTIVE, is a fabulous historical romance that focuses on the plight of the Cheyenne in the late nineteenth century. Few writers show the skills of Kate Lyon as she provides a powerful story line that enables the audience to feel they are on two trails: with the tribe (the description gets into your gut) and with the lead couple. Fans of American romance will want to read the "Captive" series as Ms. Lyon freshens up what in lesser hands is an overused device.

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                  Manufacturer: US Govt Printing Office
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                  ASIN: B000MD6XIS

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                  This is a reissuance of a portion of the Congressional Record that included the speeches of Rep. Daniel Flood and Edward Derwinski.
                  Love Captive (Silhouette Romance, 145)
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                    Love Captive (Silhouette Romance, 145)

                    Manufacturer: Silhouette Books
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                    ASIN: 0671571451

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                    RUNAWAY HEART Anne had gone to Morocco to help her brother and his bride-to-be elope. But she never anticipated being abducted herself--by the very man the runaway lovers were trying to elude. Carlos had made the situation all too clear: Either Anne accompanied him to his ancestral castle in Spain to await the young lovers' return, or he would put the matter into the hands of the police. She had no choice; she was his captive now... But what Carlos didn't realize was that her heart was part of the bargain.
                    When God Was Taken Captive: Finding Hope When Heaven Seems Silent
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                      When God Was Taken Captive: Finding Hope When Heaven Seems Silent
                      Willard Aldrich
                      Manufacturer: Multnomah Pub
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                      Captive hopes ride high in Hawaii. (International Risk Management Report): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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                        Captive hopes ride high in Hawaii. (International Risk Management Report): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
                        Alfred G. Haggerty
                        Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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                        ASIN: B00092JW76
                        Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                        This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 28, 1992. The length of the article is 1111 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                        From the supplier: Hawaii's captive insurance industry has gained its first foreign captive that insures foreign risk, Telecom Insurance, a subsidiary of the New Zealand national telephone company, Telecom Corp. Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Linda Chu Takayama is optimistic that the entrance of Telecom Insurance to Hawaii will signal Hawaii's attractiveness to other foreign captives. Hawaii's tax rates are .25% of direct written premia for captive insurance companies and 1% for associations. Hawaii's tax rates are among the lowest for offshore captive domiciles.

                        Citation Details
                        Title: Captive hopes ride high in Hawaii. (International Risk Management Report)
                        Author: Alfred G. Haggerty
                        Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
                        Date: September 28, 1992
                        Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
                        Issue: n39 Page: p9(3)

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                        Malone & Hyde dims deduction hopes. (case concerning deductions of captive insurance company premiums on food wholesaler's tax returns)(Special Report: ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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                          Malone & Hyde dims deduction hopes. (case concerning deductions of captive insurance company premiums on food wholesaler's tax returns)(Special Report: ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
                          Susanne Sclafane
                          Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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                          Binding: Digital

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                          ASIN: B00093U7Z6
                          Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                          This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 18, 1996. The length of the article is 1779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                          From the supplier: Food wholesaler, Malone & Hyde, was involved in court cases from 1986 to 1995 concerning its insurance premium payments to Bermuda-based captive Eastland Insurance Ltd that were deducted on tax returns for 1979 and 1980. The US Internal Revenue Service said a portion of the deductions were invalid then revised it to all of the deductions. The Tax Court supported Malone & Hyde in both cases but in the third case the 6th Circuit Court reversed these decisions due to the deductions issue.

                          Citation Details
                          Title: Malone & Hyde dims deduction hopes. (case concerning deductions of captive insurance company premiums on food wholesaler's tax returns)(Special Report: Alternative Market Report: Captives)
                          Author: Susanne Sclafane
                          Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
                          Date: March 18, 1996
                          Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
                          Issue: n12 Page: p9(2)

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                          Cape tortoises: Their identification and care
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                            Cape tortoises: Their identification and care
                            Ernst H. W Baard
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