Word: sage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plays for Bleeclcer Street (by Thornton Wilder). Art as wisdom is the special province of age. Whether the last quartets are Beethoven's or T. S. Eliot's, the artist as sage tries to transmute a quantity of experience into a quality of meaning, and answer ultimate questions. At the age of 64, a distinguished U.S. man of letters, Thornton Wilder, has embarked on such a summing-up in a cycle of 14 one-act jMays divided into two groups, "The Seven Ages of Man" and "The Seven Deadly Sins." The off-Broadway debut of three...
...traditional scrolls of calligraphy there is an "Autobiographical Essay" by a monk which shows the Ch'an Buddhist application of Hsieh Ho's first principle. The characters appear like scribbles of a child among the stylized work of the emperors and scholars. A Zen counterpart in painting is the "Sage," a work by another monk. In a few rough, abrupt, sometimes unfinished brush strokes the figure is forcefully rendered...
Chris Hobson, who plays a Brechtian sage and narrator whom Gardner has rather artificially grafted on to his plot, is properly stilted, abstract, and didactic, but he seems totally out of place. This role should...
...language of travel guides. He has a real gift for conveying the appropriate tone of voice, the proper mood: En Route to Persepolis 330 B.C. displays this talent to good advantage. The poem is in three parts, and Freeman switches roles from section to section; at first he is sage and meditative, then boisterous and lusty...
...estranged brothers, Brown and Dion find two common parents. One is our father who art in heaven and the other is Cybel (Dora Landey), the prostitute, who loves Dion and is kept by Brown. Actually, she's less of a whore than an undergraduate impression of one: she's sage, a salty philosopher, Mother Earth and Elaine May all in one. And she likes Dion to kiss her goodbye...