Word: lebenslust
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...said to have a "philosophy," we sooner or later had to get The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $7.95). This necessarily slim volume will be one of the curiosities of the coming fall. Lack of appetite means dull writing, and Warhol's specialty is absence of Lebenslust. His act has been to desire nothing more than fame, money and the occasional Hershey bar. He has become a parody of the Astomes, those fabled inhabitants of the medieval bestiaries who, living entirely on air, possessed neither anus nor mouth. Indeed, Warhol appears to have no metabolic system...
Rubens was not an esoteric artist. The world did not veil itself from him in ambiguities. Perhaps no other painter since Titian displayed such an assured possession of his own experience, and beside it, even Picasso's notable lebenslust seems rather cramped. In a sense, Rubens was to the 17th century in Europe (he died in 1640) what Picasso was to the first half of the 20th. But Rubens' influence then went on, which Picasso's shows no sign of doing, for another 200 years. First there were his ex-students, Anthony Van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens...
Last week, as the university celebrated its 575th anniversary, it was clear that "Alt Heidelberg" had risen again. Scholarship, if short of the great years, is high. And amid West Germany's smiling new prosperity, the old Lebenslust was back in style. Though most of the 9,000 students, a fourth of them girls, still have to scrimp, a golden fringe whipped along the Hauptstrasse in costly Porsches and red M.G.s. Some 20% sported the bright visored caps of 30 student societies, including the famed dueling and drinking fraternities...
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