Word: everyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people never discover who is deviling them. The dreamers among them lean to the belief that it is Death himself. Death, for the author, is a grinning morality-play specter with his arm familiarly draped around Everyman, and this theory is the most tenable one that she leaves. Some readers may object that such mysticism is too woolly, but few of them will complain that Author Spark's funerary satire lacks bite. Any reader over 25-the age at which, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, a man realizes that he must die-will have an uneasy time forgetting...
...Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Latin and Greek and co-lecturer in Humanities 8, disclosed some of their tentative ideas for reading material ranging through the plays of the Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, and Pirandello. "I would like to also consider some medieval plays, especially Everyman, and also Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which is essentially medieval...
...20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, with overtones of both Everyman and Faust, in which God and the Devil contend for the afflicted soul of a modern Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a hollowly humanistic ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater and repeats some eternal questions about the meaning of man's suffering. Brilliantly directed by Elia Kazan...
...head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera, a puppet play, an Everyman performance, on merely a piece of cheese and a little spaghetti. Faced with the choice between either a good meal or another tankful of gasoline and an opera ticket, they invariably renounce the meal -as they should...
...goodness through good." In Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak has fulfilled his personal definition of the highest purpose of art: to create "an image of man [that] is greater than man," thus leading him to nobler realms of being. He also reminds men that Christ and the Christ-in-everyman is the last best hope of earth. In a perplexed, ravaged and despairing age, Pasternak's undiminished confidence in the future of humanity is perhaps his greatest gift...