Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there is a beyond." It may be enough for Lilith, but it is not for the play. The ascetic longevity of the ancients is, of course, Shaw's metaphor for a nobler human development. But for this metaphor to be effective, the audience must will it into life, like a sort of metaphysical Tinker Bell. Faced with an imagined future where imperfect infants are put to death, where sex is outgrown at the age of four and where life's true realm is pure, icy mind, most playgoers simply will not aspire...
...bear "the terrible burden of immortality." They opt instead for a mortal span of 1,000 years, and their fallen heirs settle for progressively less. At last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam's 1,000 years, or at least to Methuselah...
Tuned to Pitch. Running for six hours over two evenings, Methuselah takes on life and force most often in its acting. Paul Curran and Harry Lomax gleefully caricature Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith as, respectively, fatuous and feckless. Charles Kay, made up to resemble Shaw, touchingly yet comically portrays one of the last of the 31st century's "short-livers"; Philip Locke and Jeanne Watts lend a glint of intellectual ecstasy to the bald, sexless ancients of the future. In such performances, the strands of Shaw's sometimes garrulous argument are tuned to a fine pitch, so that...
...Godard, Diplomat George Kennan and Heart Surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard. For those who had thought of Manzù as a strictly religious artist, the museum's collection may be a minor revelation. It demonstrates Manzù's uniquely quattrocento humanistic outlook, a faith and joy in life that could comprehend both genuine piety and unabashed lustiness. Besides many casts of the reliefs from the doors of St. Peter's, and other examples of his well-known religious works, there are lusty compositions of embracing lovers in the spirit of Boccaccio, sensuous studies of Inge in the nude...
...fullest powers. From the thoughtful, chin-in-hand pose and the bookish sophistication of the pincenez to the compassion, intelligence and ever-so-subtle weakness spelled in the cleric's features, Eakins crystallized the peculiar humanity of the dedicated priest -and vindicated his own lonely, stubborn loyalty to life...