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...purports to cover: like men's bikinis." On beards in general: "Men tend to look the same. I have always shuddered at the possibility that, by mistake, St. Peter admitted Karl Marx and barred Johannes Brahms." At times the ironies seem to have been guided by an unseen hand. In his off-watch time, Buckley read Moby Dick. But no whales were sighted, just an unidentified submarine. Buckley also tells of anchoring in an isolated cove in the British Virgin Islands, only to be unexpectedly joined minutes later by another boat bearing Dr. Benjamin Spock. In warm neutral waters...
...Third World's case was made most passionately by World Bank President Robert S. McNamara. In a long address, McNamara spoke eloquently of a need for more aid to a largely unseen population of "severely deprived human beings struggling to survive in a set of squalid and degrading circumstances." McNamara urged wealthy countries to increase the World Bank's capital (presently about $40 billion) and annual lending capacity ($5.8 billion...
...just verbal, but visual art-forms stress the unseen. Recently a smudged piece of paper entitled "Drawing by DeKooning erased by Rauschenberg with the artist's permission" sold as a work of art. When idea triumphs over image in this way, the art evades sensory comprehension; we can't reach it through sight, taste, smell, sound or even touch; the only way it can be grasped is with the intellect. The question that should be asked last gets asked first: "What's it all about...
...think onstage rather than move, the first piece, "That Is the Show," was the best indication of their strengths and weaknesses. In "Show," there was a Message being projected by the troupe's collective mind, facial expression and dramatics. But in the dancing per se the message remained uncatalyzed, unseen...
Like the Boston runs of many aspiring theater productions, Tanz Forum's U.S. debut presents work that is generally unknown (in this country), and the problem with debuts is that sight unseen they are hard to predict. But Tanz Forum enjoys a reputation which growing internationally. The company has toured Europe, North Africa, Lebanon, Iran, Greece, India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, and now the United States. And the company is only six years...