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Harvard, which exposes its undergraduates to ceaseless complexities, also provides them with unlimited freedom of retreat. Within this large community, anyone can associate himself with a group of like-minded friends, and comfortably ignore experiences which might radically challenge him. If the CRIMSON editor, a clubbie, or a Tocsin member does not grow very much in wisdom by remaining inside his chosen organization, he at least avoids the risk of altogether losing himself...
...Ceaseless Combat. In the course of his trip, Kazantzakis does not make a single friend. The closest he comes to friendship is when a Japanese grudgingly confesses: "Your absence is more disagreeable to me than your presence." When he falls in love with a willowy Chinese girl, she is whisked away to serve in the war effort. "Her individual suffering," Kazantzakis muses, "had assumed its true proportions, lost like a tiny sigh over the immense and dolorous face of China...
What saddened Kazantzakis' life, however, strengthened his art. His experiences steeled his poet's nerves, shaped the hard philosophy of his later masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Last Temptation of Christ. Life is ceaseless combat, Kazantzakis learned, and the poet's fight is the fiercest of all: to translate experience into words, to "transform flesh into spirit...
...huge effrontery, his assurance that his weight and wit make him the incandescent center of his cronies which keeps Peto (Tony Corbett), Bardolph (John Anderson), and Mistress Quickly (Raye Bush) steadily alive. That radiance has happily restrained most--if not enough--of those extremely traditional and extremely irritating ceaseless palsies, grunts, and hysterics which directors of Shakespeare persist in preserving in all the comic scenes...
...work" that envelops the viewer. It is a daring proposal of marriage between sculpture and architecture, though there are probably not many people who would want to be enveloped so vigorously. In almost all his work. Ferber's early wrestling matches go on in the form of a ceaseless battle against constraint. When a work succeeds it becomes not metal, but a magnificent release of energy...