... of such is already lost. Yet the picture is more complex. As with so many things in our culture, understanding how and why there must exist a place for these studies in our educational institutions involves traversing a strong and not shallowly wrought current of cynicism; it involves taking on an attitude of bitter acceptance toward our nation's less becoming qualities, an attitude bordering on feigned indifference; it involves us welcoming into the sphere of discourse that which we may shamefully accredit with binding together our notion of democracy; that which might seem as far as we can imagine anything being from the point one ought to depart in such an endeavor; that by which the work of our most exalted artists is ineluctably chastened; that which, in its ink and paper, is materialized by the same elements that make communicable the thoughts of our greatest minds. This dance of ...

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