Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIBLE (Harcourt, Brace; $30), is a continuation of the artist's Biblical poem-without-words on which he has been engaged for more than 30 years. These drawings and lithographs have a power firmly rooted in a kind of sophisticated innocence. Marc Chagall takes the Old Testament literally, so that his Jewish inspiration seems sometimes to have been handed over to an unreconstructed Fundamentalist for execution. These powerful drawings are sensuous (Ruth in the Fields looks like a belly dancer) and sometimes terrible (Joel Kills Sisera), but always steeped in a mythical vision that has become the signature...
...have not always been wrong about the future of events and, if you will permit me. I shall inscribe some of these words as my testament because I should like to be held accountable for them in years which I shall...
...audience, which has to sit through long scenes already marked for destruction. As a production is laboriously dragged from town to town (before Camelot reaches New York, its railway fares and freight charges alone will reach $35,000), a playwright sometimes tosses everything but his last will and testament into the first draft to see what will go. A merchandising mentality ("Give them what they want") can sacrifice a song, a scene or a whole play to the whim of a weary tryout audience. But in experienced, honest hands, the road ordeal can also lead to the kind of relentless...
...winning J.B. (1958), five years in the writing, nothing more need be said: these pages have already carried four articles about it by three different people, including myself, and enough's enough. Few persons know, though, that J.B. was not the first time MacLeish dramatized part of the Old Testament: he wrote a play, Nobodaddy (1925), about the Garden of Eden, which was published the following year by, of all things, Dunster House...
...Chartres was more than a sacred dollhouse. It was a great book of knowledge for the Middle Ages, whose illiterate people could read the Old Testament and the New in its carvings and fabulous stained glass, as well as theology, science, history and the liberal arts...