Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white man's blues. But Newman is probably the most novel and perhaps the most intelligent lyricist cutting records today. Occasional songs, such as "Mama Told Me Not to Come," have been popularized in dessicated AM hits by other performers. But nothing is like listening to this wit and wisdom in the original. Anyone who can sing "Cleveland, city of magic..." has got to have imagination. Sunday, February 24 at The Performance Center I, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets for all shows are available at The Performance Center every day after...
...macrobiotics. She would, of course, located in the system what seemed a salve to her pain. For someone whose trips had turned into nightmares could not be threatened by a philosophy that placed the source of health, not in the inner self, but in "the absolute justice and infinite wisdom and Order of the Universe." Kimberly Rath, sold on this surefire system for spiritual peace, donned it like a straightjacket upon her life...
Twenty-five years ago, Carol Channing first enchanted Broadway as Lorelei Lee, the platinum-haired, platinum-headed blonde who gave the world the Little Rock wisdom that diamonds are a girl's best friend. That was in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the musical hit that made her an instant star. It may be too late to revive that show, which never laughed quite hard enough at itself, but Lorelei is a particularly tawdry retread. Jule Styne has added a few routine songs; and the book, originally by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, has been updated by Kenny Solms and Gail...
Gentle Persuasion. The Berkowitz-Newman brand of wisdom is vaguely Adlerian (Berkowitz attended the Alfred Adler Institute after taking his Ph.D. at New York University). Adler invented the term inferiority complex, and the book is aimed at people with shaky selfesteem. As Adler did, it recommends strengthening the ego and urges self-determination. Sometimes, at least. Actually the authors want to have it both ways: "When you try to do it all out of will power, you are not treating yourself with respect. You are making the assumption that change has to be imposed from above, that your self doesn...
...Gardner works his two desperate characters out of their bitterness. Death loses its hold, and the struggle for meaning in life finds its way into Nickel Mountain. Henry reaches out to his neighbors, when their pride prevents them from asking help. Gardner gives Henry a down-home kind of wisdom. Henry realizes that if you just think somebody is being stabbed, you have to jump on the guy with the knife. And even if it was just an illusion, you have to get up, dust yourself off, ignore derision, and be prepared to do it again. Anything is better than...