Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ripeness is all," said King Lear. Quite possibly. But not in a society based on the planned obsolescence of men as well as machines. Paul Weiss, retired Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale and one of the nation's foremost teachers, has been denied the Albert Schweitzer Chair at Fordham University because, at 69, he is considered too old. He has now sued, charging discrimination and asserting that he is as alert and vigorous as ever. Says he: "The idea of age has never occurred...
...educated traveler in those pre-Kodak years, Andersen drew assiduously while journeying through Portugal, Spain and Italy. But these diary drawings are trite; in their grasp of the conventions of realistic landscape, they are far below the sketched views and water-colors made by his nearest English equivalent, Edward Lear. But in his fantasy doodles, collages and paper cutouts, Andersen's vision flowered in a lyrical and fearsome way. In such work, he emerges as an accident of history-a previously unrecognized link between the 19th century Romantics and the 20th century Surrealists, sharing their common delight in dreams...
Magic Circle. The supreme example of lost control, of course, is death. Throughout his lifetime, Hemingway seemed to be rehearsing for his death like an actor fearfully trying to prepare himself for the mad scene in King Lear. Yet Hemingway's ways of coping with the idea of death were rarely effective artistically. His "Ernestoic" pronouncements seemed jejune because they were so often, so flagrantly fronting for self-pity. Only when he could escape his self-preoccupation, as in The Old Man and the Sea, could he be taken seriously...
...force he compiles a looping, digressionary dictionary of her vocabulary, from "agnoo" (thank you) to "zwingh" (swing). He projects Mandy into the future as a kind of wholesome blonde Barbarella, zipping through time and space on exotic journeys. He creates worlds in which the handicapped seem to resemble Edward Lear's innocent creatures: compassionate Jumblies who set to sea in sieves and return, birds with corkscrew legs, who, like Mandy, are not rejects of nature but unique and puzzling variations of nature's paradoxical energy...
...seems like lago's stringed puppet. His credulity makes him appear less than normally intelligent, and the rapidity with which jealousy races through his veins suggests that he is as much passion's fool as passion's slave. At the end of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, the hero has discovered himself. At the end of Othello, the hero has simply unmasked lago and uncovered his own calamitous error. He has been tortured but not tutored by his destiny...