The man had been the head of the postwar European operation called Aliyah Bet, the clandestine resettlement of the Jewish remnant of the Holocaust in Palestine. He had come to this position as a senio...
Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
However much our quotidian cares consume us, our dreamtime is too valuable, and will be devoted to problems not susceptible to rational consideration.
FAUSTUS. To have fooled the philosopher.MAGUS. One finds, in my profession, sir, the greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.FAUSTUS. One finds the same in mine.
But shame, a breaking open of the heart before God, leads, so the Rabbis say, to that true self-knowledge necessary for change. For
Matrimony and monogamy have forever been linked with property and inheritance, the nuclear family, in the West, having been decided upon through trial and error as the most effective unit for preserva...
JOHN: You said Good day. I think that it is a nice day today.CAROL: Is it?JOHN: Yes, I think it is.CAROL: And why is that important?JOHN: Because it is the essence of all human communication. I say so...
It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or...
It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater cha...
And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps...
The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realizes that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilization and, in the great drama,...
The baby boomer generation, my own, is content, if of the Left, to live out our remaining years upon the work and upon the entitlements created by our parents, and to entail the costs upon our childre...
The first rule of tinkering is, of course, ‘save all the parts.’ But in dismantling the social fabric, the parts cannot all be saved, for one of them is . Time, we were told, is a river flowing endles...
Somebody told you, and you hold it as an article of faith, that higher education is an unassailable good. This notion is so dear to you that when I question it you become angry. Good. Good, I say. Are...
An American will fight for three things.’ …a girl, Sam said. Yes. A girl, himself, or ‘to save the world.
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
RomaLingkRoma * * * . . . Eh? What I’m saying, what is our life? It’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s Where is the ? And what is it that we’re afraid of? Loss. Wha...