Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculpture of William Muir looks something like polished driftwood; but nature, with all her wisdom, cannot seem to match by accident what Muir shapes by design. With rasps, rifflers and chisels, he has liberated a splendiferous Eden filled with elegant new phyla of plant life. Now on view at Manhattan's Sculpture Center, Muir's subtly swiveling works exchange contours with the space that surrounds them, earning comparisons with the smooth biomorphic bulges that mark the sculpture of Arp, Moore and Brancusi...
...finest speeches, delivered at a Yale commencement, President Kennedy called for a reexamination of some of these sacred cows of the received wisdom. In part, his administration began the job. I wonder how likely it is that President Johnson will go beyond these pre-formulated "realities" of public discourse and attempt to reshape the terms in which we discuss public issues to correspond more closely to the under-lying actualities. It seems improbable that he will make the attempt, and this likely failure is not the smallest part of November's loss...
...inanities that psychologists slip into) is going to make a red light blink on the grading machine and a pink slip pop out. Of course, it turns out not to be that bad. Nonetheless, some ten people were culled out over the training period. In most cases, the wisdom of 'selecting out' was apparent, but a couple were puzzling. The selection board of our program met twice, at four and eleven weeks. Each time there were victims. I think it would be kinder of the Peace Corps to make its selections earlier in the program; ideally, it might be done...
Samant paints the way he plays music: he tries to combine in the present moment all the root wisdom of past experience. "I believe that a great work of art is timeless," he says, and he learned his art by studying the paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, Sumerian tablets, and linear Egyptian murals. Prime examples are now on view at Manhattan's World House Galleries. To recapture timelessness in a modern idiom, Samant works spontaneously like an action painter, performing with his passionate pastel colors in such fast-drying media as spackle and plastic wood. Then he watches...
...Neill's symbol of the West, Marco stands for greed, hypocrisy, ravening ambition, hard-nosed practicality and blind materialism. For the East, the Great Khan and his court personify beauty, love, wisdom, art, and an all-illuminating spirituality. No one can play, in dramatic terms, with such loaded dice. The Lincoln Center Repertory revival salvages what it can by turning Marco into a handsomely mounted, lavishly costumed Marcorama...