Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good that what should be stressed is how vividly it differs from Shakespeare's rather than how it necessarily falls short. It sets some of the sharpest prose in the modern theater against some of the greatest poetry of all time; Caesar underscores the impotence of wisdom where Antony dramatizes the tragedy of folly...
...betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate. Antony and Cleopatra is really less the sequel of Caesar and Cleopatra than of Shakespeare's own Julius Caesar. And in this checkered struggle for domination, it is not wisdom that triumphs in the end (Caesar lies bleeding in the Capitol), nor idealism (Brutus is dead by his own hand), nor passion (Antony and Cleopatra are dead by theirs): what triumphs is the cold calculation of Octavius Caesar...
...Paul declared that in order to be convinced of the truth the Greeks required wisdom and the Jews a miraculous sign. As the perfect evidence of God, they were offered a despised criminal suffering upon a cross. This, said Paul, was a great stumbling block (scandalum) to the convincement of the world...
...Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
...arranged Lawrence's work in chronological order, to show the growth of the man. But there is something annoying in the title of this collection, and in the idea behind it. The essential T. E. Lawrence is to be found in the entirety of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in his collection of letters, and perhaps, when it appears, in The Mint-not in a paste & scissors job which cuts him up into snippets...