Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these same things. Slocum--whose name suggests male menopause--has no sense of identity; he doesn't know precisely what he wants. Yet Rorschach tests show that his ability to see the whole picture will certainly lead to success. He is a man living on the brink of the abyss; he displays not only schizophrenic symptoms, but quadrophonic possibilities...
...Midwesterner accustomed to the bone-crushing that fills crisp fall afternoons at such institutions of higher learning as Ohio State and Notre Dame, I arrived in Cambridge a skeptic. Harvard football had always been swallowed up in that abyss known as "the East." To a diehard Fighting Irish fan tuning into the Prudential College Scoreboard, "the East" was nothing more than a boring prelude to the really important scores--usually a shellacking by a favorite topten power of some school mired in yet another rebuilding year...
Saved from the coalpits for a moral and personal abyss? Storey himself has written of the play: "I felt the basic tragedy was that education has alienated everyone in the family, all of them, rather than enhancing their lives . . . thus the impulse of one's parents was ambiguous. They said they wanted you to have a better life, but what they really meant was they wanted you to be better off. Richer. More immune to life...
Another recent article criticized a 12th century Prime Minister who "sought to conspire with foreign countries and push our whole nation into an abyss." The author concluded by asking, "Is there not another man who has already attained a very high position and yet still wants to be Chairman of the country?" Lest the reader miss the point, the article added that the unnamed culprit "will not allow any dazzling light into the room." Chou is known to be bothered by bright lights...
...Shavian play of jousting ideas. In dramatic kinship, Jumpers is a child of Shaw's Heartbreak House. In that play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...