Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listen, I just duked it out with one of Boston's finest dentists for possession of two of my wisdom teeth, so I'm in no particular mood to sacrifice what's left of my health on an altar of Wit. Which is okay, timing-wise, because it turns out that not a whole lot is happening in town this week. What you can do in the meantime is check out Jon Landau on Pop Philosophy in this week's Real Paper. And if you're rich and bored, visit a club; Howlin' Wolf is at Joe's, and good...
Initially reggae was earthy, sexually explicit and abounding in joie de vivre: "Work with me, Annie, let's get it while the gittin' is good," a typical reggae began. While reggae retains a core of sensuality and haunting folk wisdom ("I can see clearly now that the rain must fall..."), the theme of today's reggae is emphatically one of social protest. It is often menacing, as in the Wailers' new single, Slave Driver...
...prospectus for mortality is so complex, so incredible, that wary speculators are calling for caution before some of man's new powers are applied. But social "wisdom" has hindered scientific inquisitiveness before. Two million Americans dying annually, many willing to pay anything to continue living, it is doubtful that research into methods to postpone death will be curbed...
...been torn from its ontological roots by the "debunking sciences": sociology, psychology, and the behavioral sciences, and cannot remember its origins. Rollo May's "third force," an attempt at remembrance, is, in reality, a reflection of the first force of Western civilization, love and the pursuit of wisdom...
...down the line." The same might be said for much of Wilson's play; it is most fascinating as a symptom. Why do U.S. playwrights and audiences regard derelicts as exotic romantics? Why should the dregs of society be regarded as the ultimate repositories of its wisdom? Why is a kinky personality presumed to be a rich one? And finally, how much of theatergoing has become a jaded form of slumming in which the middle-class playgoer gawks and laughs at perverse creatures whom he would studiously skirt on the streets? "I.E. Kalem