Word: snows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...real issue is family breakdown," says Benton Samana, a Buddhist monk. "Don't believe that snow job about the kids joining gangs to protect themselves." In Southeast Asia, parents take wayward children to monks for counseling. In providing that service here, Samana constantly encounters war- related emotional problems, such as withdrawn or hysterical parents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. "Their children think they are wacky," he explains. "They don't want to be around them...
...example of the ideal person in Zen is a person who climbs up a mountain to get a spoonful of snow and then climbs back down to put the snow in an empty well and continues to do this with the hope of filling the well," Glassman said...
...SNOW BALL...
...name. But as always with Gurney, there is deep ambition beneath the whimsy and nostalgia. His real subject is middle-aged males' yearning for the lost premise that underlay social dancing: the assumption that the man would lead. The central character -- a drab real estate agent organizing the Snow Ball -- looks up at three memorable debutantes of his youth, again installed in the Snow Queen's sleigh. He labels them goddess, wife and mistress and ardently wishes he could have them all forever. In fact, none "belongs" to him. Men of Gurney's generation have lived in a radically evolving...
THEATER A.R. Gurney's males are out of step in The Snow Ball...