St Ignatius College Prepatory - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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The attachment of the modern American to his automobile and the symbolic role played by his car with its aggressive and lubric design, its useless power, its otiose gadgetry, its consumption of fuel, which is advertised as having almost supernatural power . . . this is where the study of American mythology should begin.

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The study of peronality is a study of fragments. Habits and idiosyncrasies, tied together by a thin string of subjective observation, create an individual’s personality. While virtue is often said to be found in the whole man, beauty and truth are displayed equally as well in the glance of an eye, the sound of a spoken word, or in the stopped action of a photograph. Saint Ignatius High School San Francisco

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Meditation on the automobile, what it is used for, what it stands for — the automobile as weapon, as self-advertisement, as stage for the dating game, as a means of suicide, etc. -might lead us at once right into the heart of all contemporary American prob- lems: race, war, the crisis of marriage, the flight from reality into myth and fanaticism, the growing brutality and irrationality of American mores.