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...stage piano played a mystic interpretation of "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its own," the curtain of the Esquire Theatre went up on the Great Morton, hypnotist, mesmerist, psychometrist...
...Professor Stace's substitute for theology, God and man live in entirely separate worlds-an "eternal order" and a "natural order." Man cannot discover the eternal order by his reasoning power, or through any system of belief. He can only experience it. "The mystic," writes Stace, "lives in both orders"; all men, however, have within them a consciousness of God which needs only to be developed. This sense of the eternal world, which Stace calls "moral intuition"-plus the testimony of the mystics-has given man his sense of moral values, which a purely natural explanation of the universe...
...emotion he wishes. But that does not diminish the quality of honest conviction he has. When you look at him, you think: 'Here is a man with an answer. He accomplishes ten times as much work as any businessman on Madison Avenue. He's no cloistered mystic-he's an executive, a writer, an editor, a public-relations man. And yet he is well organized. He is sure of what he knows. He thinks that I am just as important to God as he. Maybe I am. Maybe that...
...break away from the plants, who are earthbound and self-sufficient." As the curtains draw back, you see Pierrot, the fool, garbed in a baggy white robe. Using magic, he transforms what looks like a mound of objects into humans who writhe as it in Dante's Interno. The mystic mood is extremely moving, especially when Pirman Treeu battles with an ever-increasing host of unicorns to win Columbine. Treeu is one of the most powerful and graceful dancers that I have seen in this medium. Praise should also go to John Cranko for the fresh, wierd choreography...
Buffet's ability to nearly nauseate has earned him a sport car, a manservant and a country place in Provence. Despite the subject matter of his new show, Buffet is not particularly inclined to religion. He is, according to his dealer, "an indifferent-far from being a mystic or a monk." The point of Buffet's art seems to be merely that man is miserable...