Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lover tries to escape from the snowbound chateau, but in the spring his small bones are found near by. No matter: word arrives that another cousin is coming. It all sounds like an insane parody of bedroom farce, but Playwright Sagan wrote it with skill, wit and a minor wisdom as dry as an eight-year-old fig leaf. Virtually all the critics, including hoary Academician Frangois Mauriac, praised Chateau. Dissenters could point to an occasional over-cleverness and seize on one of Sagan's lines for their text. "Intelligence has become a terrible thing in our time," notes...
Author Beagle, 20. has written a wry dialogue with death that may contain no large lump of wisdom but offers a fair selection of small ones. Except for an occasional lapse of taste (a coffin is a "worm Automat"), his ectoplasmic fable has a distinct, mossy charm...
...luncheon of the board of directors of the National Federation of Republican Women, came a second White House endorsement. Said Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Personally, I sincerely believe that the Vice President is the only person, in either party, with the years of training and experience . . . and the wisdom that comes from experience ... to qualify him to succeed President Eisenhower...
Still, the core of the list is the heart of the West's wisdom and genius. And the information in Fadiman's bibliography and introduction is helpful. Unfortunately, the sheer pomposity of any such program of cultural pushups is enough to send many readers scuttling to the pages of Agatha Christie. Perhaps Fadiman should have totted up an auxiliary list of 100 works that are MERELY GOOD (Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Pope's Essay on Man-) and another of volumes FRIVOLOUS BUT CHARMING (Petronius' Satyricon, Cummings' Collected Poems...
Good God. In the age of Beckett and Ionesco. Bill Saroyan's zaniness seems almost conservative. The new play has a bank clerk named Sam Harkaharkalark, a bank president named Mr. Horniman, and a succession of other Saroyantic types who deposit both cash and wisdom. Among them: a stripper named Daisy Dimple, a blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named...