Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychological Substance. Nichols can be alternately Harlequin and Pantaloon, his crayon-blue eyes and round, astonished mouth suggesting that he finds the world just a little too much to cope with. Elaine is a dark-eyed Columbine of many moods who wears her immemorial, feminine wisdom a little uncomfortably, like an ill-fitting evening dress. Just as the commedia players ridiculed the braggarts and poltroons, cuckolds and scheming Don Juans, Mike and Elaine act out caricatures of their own time and place-the phony intellectual, the lecherous boss and his confused secretary, the little man at the mercy...
Each color has its meaning inspired in part by the Bible: green for youth, violet for age and wisdom, gold for prophecy. And the window itself is an intricate design of symbols whirring through the cosmos. To the left are the glowing symbols of the Eternal Light, the Flames of the Burning Bush, and the twelve tribes of Israel. In the center is the Tree of Life crowned by the seven branches of the Light of God. The Jewish symbol of the palm becomes a kind of ladder made up of the Hebrew character "shin," the first letter...
...biggest private colleges (6,296 students) in a state brimful of good ones, but its main products are piety and basketball. Some of its academic departments operate on budgets as low as $1,000 a year. Last week Father Roesch passed on some newly won presidential wisdom: U.S. foundations "bet on horses that have won before." Then he launched a real horse race: Any department that comes up with a decent educational idea this year will get an extra $20,000. "We want something lasting, something that will influence the university's thrust toward excellence, something worthy of national...
Lights Out. Camus himself has been dominated only twice in his life: first by his father-in-law, later by the Nazis. Son of a provincial schoolteacher, he studied art in Paris, married the daughter of an aging sign painter. While Camus listened, the old man spun out his wisdom drawn from yoga, Greek philosophy and less classified sources-and the young man soon called him "my master...
...disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic and an unsentimental elegy...