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Article: Calibans of culture.(Ryan)(David Throsby's report suggests Australia should have a national cultural policy)(Column)
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- April 1, 2006
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Some Caliban of Culture, some absurd Messiah of the Paranoiac State
--A.D. Hope
AUSTRALIA'S CURRENT would-be Caliban is David Throsby, an economist; one of his famous predecessors from the cave was also an economist--"Nugget" Coombs. Near the conclusion of a lifetime of service to his country, Coombs, too, acquired the beard that seems to go with culture.
It is Well known that Hermann Goering said that whenever he heard the word culture, he reached for his revolver; well known, and wrong. It was actually the pithy sentiment of German playwright Hans Johst (d. 1978), and what he said was: "Whenever I hear the word culture, I release the ...