Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly allow one to make such a statement as the above. In short, Buddhism would have us transform the world by first transforming ourselves. This is accomplished, according to Buddhist dogmatics by practicing six perfections: charity, morality, zeal in spiritual progress, patience, concentration leading to control of mind, and insight...
Brendan Behan on Joyce (Folkways; $5.95) is a hilariously informal lecture delivered by the barroom-and-music-hall playwright to the learned exegetes of the James Joyce Society. This is pub criticism, garrulous and guileful, with now and again a boozy glint of insight...
...owning a piece of the show. "The rich writers today are the proprietors," says Producer Irving Elman. "A Stirling Silliphant really isn't in the position of a television writer. He's an owner-writer." Silliphant himself professes to deplore the trend to "hyphenated billing." "Why permit insight to be curtailed, sensitivity to be blunted, by deliberately plunging into the miasma of memos and meet ings?" he says. But he nevertheless owns a healthy 25% of Route 66 and insists that from now on he will hold out for 50% ownership of any show he writes. He installed...
...battle of the sexes, sketched in the script with deftness and insight, is too often reduced in the Harvard production to mere coquetry. Man and Superman is something of a modern morality play, with its characters symbolizing concepts rather than ordinary people. Only at times do the Harvard players achieve this universality, however; more often they are just figures in what Bentley has called the "low biological comedy" of the story...
...amused the inmates by staging his plays, which had flopped outside the asylum but were a big hit within. "This man is not insane," De Sade's last doctor declared, "he is just mad about vice." Despite that madness, De Sade's writing showed an early insight into the makeup of man. Before Freud, De Sade saw that cruelty can be part of sex and that men often get pleasure from the pain of others. Man's aggression finds an outlet, one way or another, De Sade was convinced. Better for him to discharge his aggressions...