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Furnished rooms, cafeterias, pet cemeteries, and empty stares are the boundaries of the world The Savage Eye shows us with so much anger and so little respect. The effect is enormously depressing. But I wonder if only a kind of sentimentalism could see such total boredom and sin in the faces of these city people. It is hard to see what values the makers of this movie are applying to city life...
...being, meaning and value. That the supremely worthful is not finite or limited but transcends all human comprehension and every human achievement. That the life of selfish ambition, the struggle for autonomy, acquisition and success, and attachment to finite goods, lead in the end to misery, conflict, guilt, despair, boredom and frustration. That every individual has a personal calling to turn from following after desire to a life of loving and grateful dedication to what is of ultimate worth...
...relate to, his fellow man. In 1952, in Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett defined the assumption underlying the metaphysical quest of the theater of the absurd: the absence of God and the emptiness of God-bereft man. Beckett's theater is one of deep existential anguish: "The boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being." Beckett's writing also contains an elegiac, apocalyptic note. The world is running down: "Something is taking its course...
...tangible reality. Had this standard been sustained after intermission, much might have been done to put M. Genet's poetry into context and to make his fury more comprehensible. Sylvia Gassel, though, could not innoculate her long, apocalyptic soliloquies with meaning, and the audience lapsed from confusion into boredom...
...drawing-room boredom is not the only reason for the burgeoning ball business. The fact is that there are a lot of new-line, new-money families who want to get close to the old-line, old-money families-and the charity ball has become the best opportunity. Says Socialite Robin Lynn: "The old Four Hundred has been enlarged to the 4,000,000, all scratching to get in-and in what...