The Tony Nominations
Dannie Abse quoting Robert Penn Warren:
“The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.”
Dannie Abse
Abse deserves a Tony Smith award¹ for his play Pythagoras.
Frank Rich on Bush’s Top Gun speech:
“Only hours before President Bush’s prime-time speech came news of what Variety headlined on Page 1 as ‘Regime Change’ in Hollywood — the departure of the [West Wing] creator, the writer Aaron Sorkin.”
George W. Bush
President Bush deserves a Tony Smith award² for his performance aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.
Madeleine L’Engle on the religion of Cubism:
“There is such a thing as a tesseract.”
Madeleine L’Engle
L’Engle, former librarian at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, deserves a Tony Smith award³ for insisting on the existence of the tesseract, or 4-dimensional cube, as an object of conceptual art.
L’Engle is perhaps the best defender of the religious, or “story,” theory of truth, as opposed to the “diamond” theory of truth. (See my earlier May 12 entry, “Death and Truth,” which deals with the bishop of L’Engle’s cathedral.)
¹ See Tony Smith on mathematics.
² See Tony Smith on foreign policy.
³ See Tony Smith on conceptual art.