Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...curtain went up last week at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, and there on the stage?in a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon, by French Playwright Eugene Ionesco?was an actor playing a character called Ionesco, a playwright at work on a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon. Three more characters, each called Bartholomeus, turned up and began to unravel funny skeins of academic pedantry in argument with the playwright...
...born French citizen who answers the frequent charge that the bizarre (e.g., three-nosed) characters in his plays "come from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere." Through an interpreter he solemnly told his audience that the surrealists "nourished me," but that the three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic artist is essentially alienated?", thought it over and gave a perfect, two-syllable answer...
...tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated and law-abiding man engaged in the construction of a philosophy to put an end to all philosophy This is perennially the work of the barbarian to undermine rational standards of judgment, to corrupt the inherited intuitive wisdom by which the people have always lived...
...When the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness" (Romans...
Where is the act of purpose, the work of thought to come from? Even with the will to achieve it, deliberately acquiring a consensus may sound as absurd as deliberately deciding to fall in love. But for those about to embark regretfully on a dubious, consensusless future, Father Murray has a further word. "It just happens," he says in effect, "that I have here a device which any reasonably intelligent person may apply to lead him to the consensus, the public philosophy." And with an urbane, engaging smile, out of his long black clericals he pops it: natural...