Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of its Women's Theater Series, the Boston Arts Group presents two original one-actors, both based on the lives of women authors. I Can Feel the Air takes its text from some writings of Colette that describe her first marriage. An innocent adolescent girl, she was swept off her provincial feet by a handsome music critic and author from the big city of Paris. As husband and wife, they returned to the capital, where he added her to his stable of ghost writers; his pursuit of other women occupied the time he would have devoted to his books...
...Feel the Air contains a basically lighthearted approach to its theme. But its companion play, The Yellow Wallpaper, builds in unmitigated horror. The drama, adapted from an autobiographical short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, parallels the Colette story to an amazing degree--only from the opposite perspective. Gilman became very depressed shortly after she married--for no apparent reason, unlike Colette. Mr. Gilman was devoted, attentive, and gently bewildered by his wife's desire to become an author--killing her with kindness, in effect. She was finally committed to an insane asylum, where doctors told her she should quit writing...
...smell it in the air yesterday? I mean, here it is, only February, and you've been trying to put it out of your mind for at least a couple more weeks (for the sake of the NBA), but it stared you right in the nostrils...
They maintained an air of indifference, acting as though the crisis might go away if they ignored it. "When I go to bed at night, I try not to think about Berlin," confessed Secretary of State Dean Rusk. A few Administration officials dissented...
Stockdale's record serves as a defense against that sort of mentality among the 345 students at the Newport school. Says Air Force Lieut. Colonel Norman Mc-Daniel, a fellow P.O.W. of Stockdale's and now one of his students: "A lot of training in the military tells you how you should act, but it doesn't give you the why. We're at a stage of moving from responding to what other people tell us to do to having more choice." Not an easy concept for military men, but as Stockdale puts it, "No philosophical...