Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wisdom to pass...
...tanned, muscular and poor, smelling of fish and brine, married at last to the Chinese lover he would not wed before. One can almost see Fast the grinning Zen Buddhist, sitting in his solar-heated home, tying off the novel with a quote from Lao Tzu about the wisdom of stepping off the merry-go-round of ambition. "I'm not given to pessimism," Fast explains...
...lecturing luminaries appearing this week in the Boston area is impressive. I don't know what Barry Commoner will speak on this Sunday at the Alumni Auditorium, 360 Huntington Ave. at Northeastern. But Commoner's areas of expertise are so broad that he can't help but offer some wisdom. Commoner's primary field seems to be energy and the environment. He's studied the effects of things like energy price rises, agricultural shortages, and production technology in general. He's performed experiments on DNA, especially in relation to environmental adaptations. The price for the lecture is steep...
...master of the genre over three centuries ago. His characters have a schizophrenic quality; their glib and merry lips belie broody, troubled hearts. The present production of Tartuffe at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is infectiously high-spirited, but it scants the biting melancholy wisdom that animates Moliere's satiric moral vision. Fortunately, wading only knee-deep in Moliere is more bracing than total immersion in most playwrights...
...befogged that he persistently mistakes sanctimoniousness for sanctity, guile for goodness. His chosen saint in residence, Tartuffe (John Wood), is a monster of false piety, a dark prince of humbug and hypocrisy. More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom: that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught...