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In our time a secret manifesto is being written. Its language is a longing we read in one another's eyes. It is the longing to know our authentic voc… - Theodore Roszak
" "In our time a secret manifesto is being written. Its language is a longing we read in one another's eyes. It is the longing to know our authentic vocation in the world, to find the work and the way of being that belong to each of u s . . . I speak of the Manifesto of the Person, the declaration of our sovereign right to self-discovery. I cannot say if those who have answered its summons are indeed millions, but I know that its influence moves significantly among us, a subterranean current of our history, that awakens in all those it touches an intoxicating sense of how deep the roots of the self reach, and what strange sources of energy they embrace....
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About Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American historian, author, scholar, pacifist, teacher and social critic. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University; he was professor emeritus of history at California State University Hayward.
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That is what Castle's work needed: a beginner's eye—my eye, before it became too schooled and guarded, while it was still in touch with the vulgar foundations of the art, still vulnerably naive enough to receive that faint and flickering revelation of the dark god whose scriptures are the secret history of the movies.
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