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This crazy house is not all that crazy. Shepard links his characters, however kinky, to the blood consciousness of D. H. Lawrence, to mythic forces that defy the intellect yet stir primal fears and lusts. The cast is exemplary, paced by Hamilton's Dodge, a blistered shadow of Lear on a parched prairie heath.-T.E.K...
...perhaps more to the point, the university in theater. The university, he writes, "remains the brightest hope not just for the preservation but also for the development of high culture in America...It enjoys a special position as the locus of youth and age, experiment and tradition, art and intellect, working process and realized results, apprenticeship and professionalism, the possibilities of the future and the heritage of the past...
When asked about the educational possibilities of television, Carswell answered that "the job of television is not defined as upgrading the intellect of the American people...
...might happen again. Yet the quotation had meant something to the cultists as well. What "past" did they have in mind? Had Jones just picked up the quotation somewhere, and used it superficially? Or had he read Santayana in depth? And if he had, what perverse twistings of the intellect had brought him to his own conclusions...
...left, his hair glowing like a halo. His head was so large, his body seemed to hang from it like a spiral nebula." The great man agreed to pose for a sculpture, a project Berks has worked on ever since. "I was overwhelmed by the sweetness, yet penetrating intellect of the man. He treated everyone the same, whether child or king," recalls Berks, who has also sculpted busts of John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson. The National Academy of Sciences is raising $1 million to pay Berks and his workers for the monument, which will be cast...