The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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Page 218
... dramatic theme . This theme is defined and modified by recurrent collective choices . Drama , taking form in the theater , constantly appears as a symbol of a culture , at the moment the culture itself transforms stereotyped routines ...
... dramatic theme . This theme is defined and modified by recurrent collective choices . Drama , taking form in the theater , constantly appears as a symbol of a culture , at the moment the culture itself transforms stereotyped routines ...
Page 219
... drama belongs to the lumber room of history or to the heating and plumbing system of the theater : necessary incidents to producing the drama , but with no specific reference to what takes place on the stage . Who would go to the ...
... drama belongs to the lumber room of history or to the heating and plumbing system of the theater : necessary incidents to producing the drama , but with no specific reference to what takes place on the stage . Who would go to the ...
Page 222
... drama and find themselves without any part : each the undistinguished member of an aimless crowd of un- employed people . In such a state , only one thing can save the lost in- dividual or his society : a new drama . When they are ...
... drama and find themselves without any part : each the undistinguished member of an aimless crowd of un- employed people . In such a state , only one thing can save the lost in- dividual or his society : a new drama . When they are ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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