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...kinetic, eight-minute Creation, astir with turbulent photography. Unfortunately, it is a long way from The Beginning to the end. The Word is interpreted altogether literally, neither revitalized with the logic of drama nor illuminated by the magic of myth. The film simply plunges ahead with quasi-King Jamesian narration, supplied by Playwright Christopher Fry and spoken by Huston himself, a mighty celestial circuit rider on the sound track. "God blessed them and said: Multiply," the voice intones, clearing the way for a shot of fuzzy, nuzzling seals and simultaneously raising questions of identity. There is somebody up there...
Less than half the degree candidates showed for a streamlined Class Day. It lasted barely an hour. Robert F. Wagner Jr. '65 delivered a brief W. Jamesian oration in which he attributed collegiate ferment to a dearth of "adventure" on American campuses. Wegner lauded protest and demonstration as an impetus to wider reflection about "vital issues" and as a healthy expression of student dissatisfaction...
...most of us, at one time or another, have wanted to hear. He begins his literary ambush with the declaration that this "writer was not a major writer at all--.. he is a major entertainer..." He notes that Jame's vision of sex was essentially voyeuristic..., in this esoteric Jamesian universe--a literary world that was comprised of one-half of the upper one per cent of the human race at best; and one-quarter of their emotions--the worst crime, next to being poor, was to be sexual." And several generations of slow (but inattentive) readers will be delighted...
...other hand, the Jamesian experience sometimes becomes too artificial, too obviously fudged to be convincing. James's "experience" in The American Scene often seems little more than a deliberate rehearsal of performing sensibilities. Yet Geismar would have more effectively re-evaluated James if he had taken a kindlier attitude toward these failings and admitted James's virtues as well. Instead, he awkwardly raises a most bane question for literary critics--in a piece of art to be judged apart from the artist who made it?--and never answers...
Thus, that most un-Hegelian of philosophers, William James, affords even a place in his trinity for the great German idealist. Nothing could attest more profoundly to the extraordinary eclectic potentialities of the Jamesian scheme or to its capacity to effect cultural rapprochement. But in a society where not knowing what to do or believe seems a much graver problem than not knowing how to do it, the triadic model has further importance. For James the test of a belief is its consequences for action and the test of an action, its consequences for pure experience. He starts with pure...