It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with a much more serious malady that might be called ‘future shock’. He would later expand this article into his 1970 book. He bases the term on ‘ culture shock’, the disorientation experienced by people who travel abroad: In ‘The Future as a Way of Life’, Alvin Toffler writes about ‘Future Shock’. …Helen Levitt’s photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know…Most of the photographs reproduced here come as close to the pure spontaneity of true folk art as the artist, aware of himself as such, can come It is, in fact, very hard to get the camera to tell the truth yet it can be made to, in many ways and on many levels. The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and, as a rule, very cruel faithfulness precisely what is in the eye, mind, spirit, and skill of its operators. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is. It is clear enough by now to most people that ‘the camera never lies’ is a foolish saying. ‘A Way of Seeing’ combines a selection of photographs taken by Helen Levitt on the streets of New York’s Spanish Harlem in the 1940s with quotes from a ‘poetic essay’ by the critic and novelist James Agee, intended for a book which remained unpublished until 1965, ten years after Agee’s death: He presented a revelation, but a serviceable revelation, an attainable ideal for all times. He would reveal the reasons for the perversion of virtue, and he would demonstrate how the individual, and mankind, could trample evil underfoot and restore the operation of divine law on earth and he would offer a heavenly vision of man’s possible, ultimate bliss. He would display to men – particularly to Italians, and particularly to Florentines – all their burden of evil. Horizon caption: ‘This frontispiece of a late fourteenth-century manuscript pictures Dante, in a red robe, guided by Virgil, in blue, exploring the successive circles of Hell as described in the Divine Comedy.’ Suppose an ex-Senator in disgrace should write a giant book examining theories of government and proposing a new national policy suppose he should reveal Washington’s public and private scandals, exalting his friends and condemning evildoers to everlasting punishment suppose he should establish a moral system for the purgation and perfection of the human soul suppose his thought should lead him to theological science fiction, taking off into space to traverse the infinite universe, attaining to the very presence of God suppose he should intersperse in his work profound comments on philosophy, science, language, music, art suppose all this and you will have a modern parallel for Dante and his achievement. In ‘Dante’s Pilgrimage’ (1965 was the 700 th anniversary of Dante’s birth) Morris Bishop writes about the Divine Comedy: His greater glory was that he laid the foundations for her intellectual and aesthetic leadership.’ Wedgewood: ‘…the political power he built for France was ephemeral. It illustrates an article on Richelieu by C.V. This issue’s cover shows a triple portrait of Cardinal Richlieu by Philippe de Champaigne:

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