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...religion and the church, with God universally regarded as a male, might be interested to know that Eugene O'Neill anticipated them in Strange Interlude more than forty years ago. The eminent playwright, however, apparently thought that women themselves were responsible in part for the establishment of a masculine Godhead. In Strange Interlude the dramatist has his heroine say, when her father dies and she can find no comfort in prayer...
...ADDITION to defending human goodness in his poems, Blake also expressed, what was for his day, radical anger at the Church and the Government's role in preventing and exploit-ing man's godhead. Ginsberg does full justice to Blake's original poems in a lilting barricades-style song of "The Grey Monk" and a slow funeral dirge of "London...
...apocalypse is personally, viciously immanent as long as Godot-Godhead, revelation, a truth-declines to appear. But, cruelly, living death is more than personal. At almost every event in our hysterical universe, the End rears its cross-eyed, leering face. Sometimes it looks like a bloodthirsty section man, sometimes like an Erich Segal, sometimes like a Richard Nixon. Or, more frightening, the End is in the eyes of a street kid asking for change, in the shaking hands of your friend crashing on exam-period speed, in the magazine covers that report the battle of the hemline with the fervor...
...Would you like to buy the latest issue of 'Back to Godhead,' the magazine of the Krishna movement?" he asked. "We usually sell it for 50 cents, but today it's down to a quarter...
...instead for a mortal span of 1,000 years, and their fallen heirs settle for progressively less. At last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam's 1,000 years, or at least to Methuselah...