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Despite all the drawbacks, both the avoidable and the unavoidable, I would still suggest you see All Gods Chillun, which is the final production at Brandeis this summer. If the production suffers because one finds it difficult to transcend narrow concerns, and see broader moral implications, it also provides a valuable commentary on that narrow concern, the "Negro problem," as an example of race prejudice in all forms. Although this summer has been dominated by the struggle of the Negro to gain justice and freedom, the issue usually seems to be a "social" or "political," and therefore impersonal, problem. This...
...Lawrence Burkholder finds that "almost all the students are some what apprehensive when it comes to their faith." Many find serious gaps in the theology that comes to them across the lectern. Says George Pickering, 25, a senior at Chicago: "Problems like disarmament, radiation-they so transcend the kind of 'shall I spit at my aunt?' kind of ethics that we're lost. Ethics have been boxed in over the ages into a kind of gentility...
...modern Jew, Cohen believes, is that he is both "a creature situated in nature and activated by history" who by the fact of revelation also belongs to a supernatural community-the Old Testament's Chosen People: "God has covenanted with the Jewish people that it shall transcend nature and history to Him alone . . . Without the belief that God has called the Jew to Himself, to call oneself a Jew is but a half-truth...
...problem is not one of serving, in Cowan's words, "with equal effectiveness as an artist and propagandist." Rather, it is one of seeking points of contact, empathy, and pedestrian, and thereby transform at the man situation--be it religious, social, political, or whatever--that permit the artist to transcend the mundane and depestrian, and thereby transform at the level of artistic expression the very human situation that concerns him. In creating this transformation, the artist can do no other than to propagate, project or proclaim something. What else can he do? And if he is a truly great artist...
Perhaps Benjamin Smith's successor should not be singled out today as a special case. The level of political debate all over this country is disturbingly low. Yet when a former Massachusetts Senator, John F. Kennedy, ran for the Presidency against a man named Nixon, he did transcend the smile-slogan level. He did present a program and an articulate, progressive vision for this country. His younger brother, however, instead of transcending swamp-politics mired in it, and finally has come to epitomize...