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This flawed ending echoes the flawed conclusion in Broadway's J.B. of three years ago; both Playwrights MacLeish and Chayefsky assume that man has somehow outgrown God and must evolve a higher morality. They deny that the end of man is to glorify God and seem to agree that man must express, sanction, and glorify himself. Paradoxically, the denial and doubt of God have led not to the affirmation of man but to his greater despair. For it is despair from which such questing morality plays as J.B. and Gideon seem to spring...
...jingly sentimentality I award that the 1961 Archibald MacLeish prize, a brass loving cup inscribed "Blow on the coal of the heart...
...Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...
...word that breathes life in poetry is the image-not the image as ornament, but the image as analogy. As a superior example of what he means, MacLeish cites an anonymous Chinese poem...
...Religion. At 68, having ranged in his own poetry from a swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal...