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...rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature. In perhaps his least anticipated experience, he meets an age mate smarter than he is, not only in literary learning but in his grasp of human nature...
...knows how little he knows. He is aware enough of the larger world to realize how many perils, including the war, may bar his path to glory. And through the nudging of his wise and principled friend Arnold Epstein (played with ferocious wit by Barry Miller), Eugene begins to grasp that his charm and amiability may mask the moral flaw of self-absorption. When Arnold stingingly accuses Eugene of being "a witness," devoid of passion and commitment, the insight may make an audience reconsider its feelings about the character and also its author, who appears to be musing self-critically...
...most enthusiastically received work was Tent Meeting, an uproarious portrait of a daffy Southern family: the patriarch, a self- anointed reverend who believes he gets messages directly from God--and who just may be right; a son, a self-aggrandizing deserter from World War II who has a diminishing grasp of reality; a daughter who copes with life's problems by stuffing her ears with an endless supply of cotton wool, then humming loudly; and the daughter's infant child, who is hopelessly deformed yet somehow survives. The action starts with the family's kidnaping of the baby from...
...attempting to grasp a sense of the new realities of Harvard, I was reminded of a quintessential insight stated at the turn of the century by the Harvard philosopher Henry Adams: that a dynamic of human history appears to be a constantly increasing rate of change. Attending the Black Alumni Weekend increased my awareness that in this amplified technical age, where human energy appears strained merely to deal with the proliferation of new events, the importance of history is increasing as a rudder in the four dimensional voyage of humanity. The Harvard Black students and faculty who organized the Black...
...critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of the values enshrined in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as manifested in the big French Salon painters: Jean-Leon Gerome, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Felix-Auguste Clement. He loved their important subjects, their grasp of the colonial exotic, their professionalism and high finish. So when artists 40 years his junior like Picasso and Delaunay paid him their semireverent homages, he took them as his due without interesting himself much in their paintings. He patted the Young Turks on the head, telling Picasso, for instance, that...