Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Credits xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction xix
7. 1. The Modern Century 1
8. 2. Current Opera: A Housecleaning 73
9. 3. Ballet Russe 76
10. 4. The Jooss Ballet April 1936 79
11. 5. Frederick Delius 83
12. 6. Three-Cornered Revival at Headington 87
13. 7. Music and the Savage Breast 88
14. 8. Men As Trees Walking 92
15. 9. K.R. Srinavasa lyengar’s Lytton Strachey 96
16. 10. The Great Charlie 98
17. 11. Reflections at a Movie 103
18. 12. Music in the Movies 108
19. 13. Max Graf’s Modern Music 112
20. 14. Abner Dean’s It’s a Long Way to Heaven 113
21. 15. Russian Art 114
22. 16. Herbert Read’s The Innocent Eye 115
23. 17. The Eternal Tramp 116
24. 18. On Book Reviewing 123
25. 19. Academy without Walls 126
26. 20. Communications 134
27. 21. The Renaissance of Books 140
28. 22. Violence and Television 156
29. 23. Introduction to Art and Reality 167
30. 24. Pro Patria Mori 175
31. 25. Wyndham Lewis: Anti-Spenglerian 178
32. 26. War on the Cultural Front 184
33. 27. Two Italian Sketches, 1939 188
34. 28. G.M. Young’s Basic 194
35. 29. Revenge or Justice? 195
36. 30. F.S.C. Northrop’s The Meeting of East and West 197
37. 31. Wallace Notestein’s The Scot in History 201
38. 32. Toynbee and Spengler 202
39. 33. Gandhi 209
40. 34. Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs 211
41. 35. Dr. Kinsey and the Dream Censor 215
42. 36. Cardinal Mindszenty 220
43. 37. The Two Camps 222
44. 38. Law and Disorder 224
45. 39. Two Books on Christianity and History 226
46. 40. Nothing to Fear but Fear 232
47. 41. The Ideal of Democracy 235
48. 42. The Church and Modern Culture 237
49. 43. And There Is No Peace 244
50. 44. Caution or Dither? 246
51. 45. Trends in Modern Culture 248
52. 46. Regina versus the World 262
53. 47. Oswald Spengler 265
54. 48. Preserving Human Values 274
55. 49. The War in Vietnam 282
56. 50. The Two Contexts 283
57. 51. The Quality of Life in the ’70s 285
58. 52. Spengler Revisited 297
59. 53. The Bridge of Language 315
60. Notes 331
61. Emendations 381
62. Index 383