Word: aimlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Choose the way of this present Administration, and you make real the prospect of an America unarmed and aimless in the face of militant Communism around the world...
Carefully Pinter scrapes away the aimless talk and blank expressions that coat real feelings. Underneath we discover a galaxy of neurotic horrors: curious inversions of appearances, petrified wills, secret dreads, loneliness, and despair. These interior stresses are just as commonplace as the banalities that overlay them, even though they are revealed in bizarre ways. The pettiness and self-deception begin to seem less an insipid veneer than a shield for sanity...
Beneath all the heady good-natured nonsense, A Country Scandal hints at personal tragedies and deplores the empty hypocrisy of country life. The dissolute socialites act like buffoons but they live an aimless "puppet existence" in "a hell of vulgarity and disillusionment." Their barbarous antics hide frustrated ambitions and a loss of self-respect; "irrepressible passions" drive them to torment one another...
Feline Charm. Even in his own day, Offenbach was hardly avantgarde. But to Landestheater Director Gerhard Hering, the offbeat choice of Offenbach has a "secret significance" for Angst-ridden Germany. The "aimless and exaggerated prosperity" of mid-19th century Paris, he explains, "seems to bear certain ominous parallels to the Wirtschaftswunder of today." If Offenbach's exuberant music seems "fresh and enchanting," it is because of the swaggering self-assurance with which France's Second Empire "danced over the volcano...
...conclusions to him, to the American people and to the world." The commission has managed to avoid the natural impulse to weave a webwork of sinister motivations and complex conspiracies to satisfy a puzzled nation. Instead, it has found so far that the act was committed by a rootless, aimless, driven young man. It was a bizarre coming together of circumstances that gave Lee Oswald the time, the place and the opportunity to placate the demons that consumed...