Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orgiastic moment were to result in a corresponding intensity of verbal presentation, I would be the first to use psychedelics. But experience suggests otherwise. Inspiration is momentary; after that, what Coleridge calls the 'architectonic' imagination must take over." His own experience with drugs was dissatisfying: "My own brief encounter with mescaline was very much of a withdrawal experience. . . . I like a sense of connection with other people and other things. I like to drink, of course, because of the sense of conviviality and celebration alcohol induces. . . . I don't believe lying around in a chemically induced trance is going...
Dickey's defense lies both in his ambition and his achievement. He is trying to write poems for which there are no precedents; therefore some slips are to be expected, if not fully condoned. And it is a fact which few could challenge that Dickey's brief career has already produced a handful of poems that can be set with the very best of this period--poems like "The Performance," "The Firebombing," "Fox Blood," and "For the Last Wolverine...
...forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot...
...tragedy. But it is Vanessa Redgrave who emerges as the film's most telling virtue-a touching, tragic beauty whose elongated face and aristocratic grace are reminiscent of a medieval tapestry. Without her, Camelot would be disastrous. With her surprisingly true voice and regal talents, it has its brief, shining moments, though in the end Camelot is reduced to Camelittle. Arthur's final nostalgic song seems less a memorial for the dream castle that never was than for the picture that might have been...
Ironically, the film's most stirring moments are not its overheated love scenes but the brief encounters between Burton and Guinness. In one, Guinness, a short day's journey from death, recounts his wasted life of lies in a graveyard retreat. Priestlike, Burton answers the tortured confession with a symbolic absolution. At such moments of transcendent drama-and there are enough to make it worthwhile-The Comedians is easily forgiven its other sins...