Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should make them less flippant about what they are doing. Their experiments and explorations have barely begun. They cannot be allowed to stagnate or degenerate. The people in the counter have to assume a new intentness in their quest for human happiness, and a new earnestness in their vision of what will...
This kind of methodological framework is prone to produce not social critics but social engineers-technicians whose stunted vision of the possible and ethnocentric definition of the good severely limit their usefulness either in pursuing creative research or in helping to overcome the obstacles to humane progress here or in the third world...
Artaud's vision encompassed a theater that could sweep through an audience like a plague, be as direct as a bullet, release the torments and ecstasies that may be found in death, martyrdom and love. He felt that the theater was strangling in words and could be reborn only through signs, sounds and the primitive force of myth. Above all, he wanted a burning intensity to be felt in the theater that would sear an audience: "The spectator who comes to us knows that he has agreed to undergo a true operation, where not only his mind...
...HEAVEN, NEW EARTH by Kenelm Burridge. 191 pages. Schocken Books. $5.50. The vision of the millennium as a golden age of freedom and affluence is a quasi-religious phenomenon that occurs in decaying cultures. In examining a number of millenary movements among primitive peoples, Anthropologist Burridge observes a quaint custom of the behavioral sciences by elaborating the obvious, painfully...
NORMAN MAILER: THE COUNTDOWN by Donald L. Kaufmann. 190 pages. Southern Illinois University. $4.95; THE STRUCTURED VISION OF NORMAN MAILER by Barry H. Leeds. 270 pages. New York University. $6.95. Two assistant professors of English establish tenuous positions on the perpetual beachhead that is the imagination of Norman Mailer. Leeds waits anxiously for the Big Novel. Kaufmann, by contrast, wonders whether Mailer's methods will-or even should -catch up with his protean intellect...