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...action, helped him to create the psychological realism that led to great critical acclaim and commercial success in Japan and abroad. Perhaps better than any other contemporary Japanese author, Mishima was able to articulate the conflicts of his people in their transition from the old culture to the Western mode of living...
Pity poor Hilaire Belloc, to whom the opposite has happened. Most of his 100 or so books are out of print, and he is remembered, if at all, for his failings: as a gruff, belligerent polemicist, who wrote biased history and ceaselessly propagandized for an eccentric mode of intolerant, muscular Catholicism...
...grasps at them both. The current resurgence of interest in nature and the environment, Lifton says, is merely an expression of man's desire to live on through nature, combined with his perception that nature is assured of immortality, no matter what the fate of man. But the fifth mode of immortality is the one which most concerns him, for he sees in it the explanation of much of the new culture which man has developed in the past quarter century...
THIS FIFTH mode of immortality-the seeking of an experience to transcend life and death-seems to Lifton to be the reason for the drug culture, for revolution, for almost any of the consuming passions made have experienced since 1945. He uses the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a paradigm for man's attempt to redefine the boundaries and re-establish the concept of immortality, while defying the specter of death which the bomb has established. "The activist response to symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could...
...Story Theater, Director Paul Sills and his enviably talented company have set this mirror on the stage and its reflecting images constitute a hilarious allegorical romp. Story Theater is a mode of dramatic presentation as well as a title. The idea is to illustrate texts, usually myths, legends and folk tales, with a limited use of words. Sills, a co-founder of Chicago's Second City Company, calls it "ways of speaking with your body." In this production, largely drawn from Grimm's fairy tales, the stories follow a straight narrative line, but veer off at every other...