Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theologians are hardly alone in recommending the rediscovery of joy to a new generation of believers. In fact, the emphasis on the Dionysian element in life-celebration, song, dance, laughter-is fast acquiring a theology of its own. In The Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox presents Christ as clown and Christianity as comedy, because the world "should not be taken with ultimate or final seriousness." Theologian Sam Keen, 38, pleads a similar case in Apology for Wonder. While he believes that "the wise man is a dancer," he insists that the "authentic" man temper his ecstasy with a sense...
...best parts of the film are those which show Miller the clown. In the opening shots he laughs and makes faces at himself in the mirror. "For all your ills, I give you laughter. To laugh at yourself is the most important thing." he says. His boisterous and irresistible laughter proves his point. Upon graduating from high school in Brooklyn, Miller was asked what the wanted to be later on in life. "A clown." he replied. "the symbol of man's suffering on earth...
HERMAN'S HAT, by George Mendoza, illustrated by Frank Bozzo (Doubleday; $4.50). When the clown gave Herman his big black hat he warned: "Once you place it on your head you must never take it off or else everyone will know what you are thinking." And Herman, naturally, is thinking all sorts of unimaginable things. Glowing illustrations heavily influenced by Marc Chagall...
...Unhappily, draft-card burners and Viet Cong-flag wavers steal the lion's share of publicity. The first clown I run across yelling, 'Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh ... the N.L.F. is gonna win!" is gonna win a punch in the mouth. But why condemn the majority of compassionate, intelligent Americans crusading for peace just because of a few morons...
...bodily up, and carry him off, the final action drowned in a scream of loud and hopeless terror, amplified, so that it reverberated in the ear drums. The whole thing was terrifying and convincing, as it should be. The switch, then, to the Shepherd and his son the Clown, was entirely in keeping with the Shepherd's words...