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...work in India, took notes from the Indian director Satyajit Ray both literally (Ray wrote the musical score) and figuratively: Shakespeare has the same porous texture that Ray puts into his work. No attempt at calculated plotting is made; the story flows simply and slowly, like honey from a gourd, until at last, when there is nothing left to tell, it comes to a quiet...
September 7--In the middle of the afternoon two villagers hailed me as they were heading off into the forest, and invited me to come along. We We walked to a small clearing where two palm trees had been felled, and they collected the palm wine from gourds that had been under the cut. We sat in the shade and drank the palm wine. One of the men explained to me, half joking, the importance of this drink to village life. It's cheap--25 francs for a groundful. In the morning, the men eat a little manioc, and empty...
...Columbia). Everyone seems to take his new songs to Pete. Fred Hellerman, for example, handed him his new, gospel-like prayer for Mississippi (Healing River) just before Seeger flew down there last summer. Pete also sings some traditional ballads (Follow the Drinkin' Gourd) and his own haunting Bells of Rliymney...
...characters show little shading: if the priest is merely obdurate, Ze is fanatic. The Given Word's strength lies in the vitality that pulses through an astringent morality play, filling it with the cries of pitchmen and voodoo women and street-corner poets, the hip-heaving dancers and gourd-rattling hipsters who almost make humanity look worth dying...
Admirable indeed was the virtue of Hui. With a single dish of rice, a single gourd of drink, he lived in his mean, narrow lane. Yet he enjoyed his life where others suffered. Admirable indeed was the virtue...