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...love or even hate-in which two beings face and accept each other as truly human. This produces what Buber calls a dialogue-a fusion of action and response, of choosing and being chosen-that engages man's highest qualities. But I-It relationships are necessary for the everyday world. For I-Thou meetings are "strange, lyric and dramatic episodes, seductive and magical, but tearing us away to dangerous extremes, loosening the well-tried context . . . shattering security." Therefore, says Buber, modern man tries to escape from I-Thou in many ways, notably through collectivism, which Buber calls "the last...
Author Jhabvala gets comic sparks out of the cultural short circuits when East plugs in on West, e.g., a professor bent on art criticism ("His use of green for trees is especially remarkable"). Best of all, everyday life bustles through the pages of Amrita with all the clatter, chatter and haggling delight of an Eastern bazaar...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren read out the Supreme Court's unanimous order calling for desegregation of public schools "with all deliberate speed"-a classic application of the unchanging principles of constitutional law to ever-changing, everyday U.S. life...
Julie nevertheless has the vices of her virtues, and she knows it. "An actress," she says, "needs all the emotionality she can get." And Julie, though she has plenty of a high and special kind, has less of the more everyday varieties. "What she needs now, if she is going to grow," a friend says, "is to have a woman's life, and to suffer a woman's portion, and to wait for a woman's strength to come to her out of the dark." Director Clurman agrees: 'Julie hasn't developed what I call...
...past 22 years to decorating a "chapel in the air" whose dimensions are nothing less than Cookham itself, with the main street for the nave, the River Thames as "a side aisle." Into it, Spencer fits his Pentecost, Cana and "couples" cycles, filling them out with Bruegelesque pictures of everyday life. Nothing is too mundane to leave out. Says Spencer: "All ordinary acts such as the sewing on of a button are religious things and a part of perfection...