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...well as Cleopatra's, is provided by the knowledge that command depends on devotion as well as self-esteem. In Troilus and Cressida, a centrifugal labor on love and honor, the rejection of the mundane world seemed a base deception; in Antony and Cleopatra it seems like a nobler refuge. In East and West, Shakespeare scized on effective dramatic terms for the workings of love and war. Cleopatra replaces the gods as the highest reference for the hero's sense of self. Antony and Cleopatra are Achilles and heaven brought to earth in West and East. The struggle...
...cannot say that Antony has convincingly regained his nobler self since the kiss recalls only more unconsidered love. The crucial dramatic connection between love and the honor of the gods has not yet been made. Antony's violent swervings between shame, rancor, and pleasure are the result of his pertinacious misconception that he can have both splendid reputation and unbounded love. The recovery of his nobler self must await his recognition of personal error. Lepidus says that his faults...
...evoked by Joan Plowright-broods on the results of human history and concludes: "It is enough 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...
Harmonious Environment. Like his colleagues at the Bauhaus, Moholy believed that in creating a more harmonious environment he could bring out nobler aspects in the human profile. The ugly realities of Nazism cut the experiment short, but in 1937 Moholy-Nagy tried to reactivate the Bauhaus in Chicago. The student's first year, proclaimed the catalogue, would be devoted to his "spiritual preparation." Chicago was not Dessau, and the school folded in a matter of months. Moholy regrouped, and the following year opened the School of Design, which, with financial support from industry, emerged over the next decade...
Other forms of self-commemoration do not appeal to Nelms. "I don't believe in education," he explained when college presidents tried to convince him that schools were nobler than booze. "I only went through the fourth grade myself-and I consider that the last year was wasted." When an opera group sought a subsidy, he said, "If you folks would just put on hillbilly shows, you could be self-supporting...