British reviewers have piled on the superlatives, admiring the show's thematic audacity, moral severity and all-out razzmatazz.
This is is pretty well the thesis of Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children, an audacious 10-minute encapsulation of Israel's moral collapse – the audacity residing in its ignorance or its dishonesty – currently playing at the Royal Court.
("The Meaning of This War [World War II]," pp. 210-212. Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, Susannah Heschel, ed. [Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996]).
To drop him would violate free speech, according to administrators at the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, which is sponsoring the Heschel meeting, "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity".
But with more than 680,000 African children dying each year from malaria, audacity is a moral imperative.
Stylistic grace, emotional punch, truth to experience, extravagance of imagination, storytelling brio, moral rigour, intellectual or formal audacity, depth of characterisation, or what Milan Kundera calls "the soft gleam of the comical"…?
A Canadian who has also lived in California and France, Robertson seems equally alert (and equally alienated) in Vancouver, in Rome, in her fictional "Roman Vancouver" and in the placeless, abstract realms of European philosophy: "It is as if / History dilates the body, to pertain / To the audacity of some moral / Oblation".
And then there is Trump's moral style, which replaces Obama's audacity of hope with his own mendacity of despair.
Given Obama's sense of moral obligation and social responsibility, and his "audacity of hope," I felt "the man and the moment may be made for each other".
