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...Grand Prix auto racing, the swift and dangerous pastime that binds its practitioners to a peculiar, almost chivalric code. With goggles and helmets for armor, with throaty, low-slung cars for mounts, they scorch the race courses of Europe and the Americas in dedicated pursuit of their elusive Holy Grail-which is always one more victory. Death is always at hand. "In every race," said Von Trips, "we are close to the limit. We must be, if we want...
Which brings my second suggestion: that the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society perform and record with the Boston Symphony Orchestra excerpts from these Easter poems, the two Grail scenes, in Act I and Act III of Parisfal, and the Prologue to Meflstofele, which is quite worthy of its two great companions...
...might be well to omit the lamentations of Amfortas from the Grail scenes, but certainly not the witty and ironic challenge of Mefistole who (the idea was of course Goethe's) twits Jehovah on having abjured a sense of humor. Lucien Price...
...education's Sputnik-sparked search for talent, the latest grail is "creativity." Few search for it harder than Psychologists Jacob W. Getzels and Philip W. Jackson of the University of Chicago, who sharply disagree with the prevalent notion that a high IQ is the mark of "giftedness." In fact, argue Getzels and Jackson, the truly creative child who thrives on novelty is likely to find IQ tests boring and hence do poorly on them...
...most ordinary and the most gifted. And through that stream flows much that is banal, tedious, nasty, insufferable, irrelevant. But some of us have the taste to let it flow by." After reading Lawrence of Arabia's translation of the Odyssey, Max, who pursued stylistic perfection like a grail, wrote: "I would rather not have been that translator than have driven the Turks out of Arabia...