Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern?to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal...
...your voice," I was once told while making a record. Robert Edgar's staged reading of Euripides' Hippolytus has this same goal. In place of the wildly-choreographed and colorfully-masked visual spectacle of traditional staging, Edgar presents uncostumed characters at lecterns. Yet Euripides' compassion for the plight of mortal helplessness can often be felt through the voices of this cast...
...first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. - John Milton, Paradise Lost...
...traffic jam. Bergman's concept is less visual-and more chilling. His people never see history; like radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps with a friend (Gunnar Björnstrand) who has become a partisan leader. Jan discovers...
...that he was an athe ist. He was denied that classification, and in August was charged with being a draft dodger. Though raised as a Jew-his Orthodox grandfather was a C.O.-Shacter claimed to have his own re ligious faith, based on the belief that "man's mortal soul is the most perfect element in the cosmos." He declared that he could not serve in the Army, because to kill another person "is a sin that no man can endure." But he also admitted that "I do not believe in any being superior to man in the universe...