Word: lucidities
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Walzer is in better control of his material, even in the sections concerning the Puritans, than he was in his Revolution of the Saints. The style is more lucid, the author more sure of himself and his argument...
...standard Western orchestra against ancient, unusual Japanese instruments. Such traditional borrowings are his way of shaping what he scoops from his river of sound. Yet if the form still seemed elusive to the Philharmonic audience last week, that is apparently the way Takemitsu wants it. Not for him the lucid structure of a Beethoven Ninth Symphony. "It's a great architectural monument," he says, "but it's not my kind of music because it draws a distinction between man and nature. My music must represent efforts at becoming unified with nature. The composer's mission...
Then two more passengers arrive: a pair of horrifying punks (Tony Musante and Martin Sheen) high on muscatel and low on decency. By turns wildly obstreperous and slimily cozy, they work their way up and down the car, baiting here, pummeling there, lucid only in their awareness of their own power to shock and paralyze. The numbed passengers can only respond in ineffectual cliches. "What kind of people are you?" screams one, all too aware of the answer. The Negro (Brock Peters), sensing in the punks' violence a kindred spirit, attempts to make friends, is brutally rebuffed, and finally...
...behavior. But fame and instant millions also have a way of inflicting private agonies on public personalities. The Beatles' current solution is spiritualism, specifically "transcendental meditation," as propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 56, a tiny, cherubic seer with shoulder-length locks. The yogi, unfortunately, is somewhat less than lucid when it comes to describing his insights. Two 30-minute sessions of transcendental meditation a day, he says, enable a person to perceive the divinity within himself. "It is the direct, simple and natural way of coming to That." What's That? Replies Maharishi: "I am That...
...with the production of Bertolt Brecht's early play In the Jungle of the Cities, the Agassiz players have grown strangely timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...