Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emonds explains that his group generally takes an intellectual approach in trying to convert hawks. The ignorance of the basic facts among many working people is amazing, he claims. "I have run into some people," he says, "who think the U.S. is fighting China in Vietnam and that Ho Chi Minh is Japanese." He is convinced that by educating them, even scantly, in Vietnamese history, he has moved many "one step closer to a dove position." Complete conversions don't happen, but at the very least, Emonds concludes, "the hawks find out that the peacniks aren't all beatniks, dope...
...result, while not executed as well as it might be, is still consistently engrossing. I don't think anyone can rightly accuse Kahn of violently distorting the play. His approach is perfectly workable -- up to a point. That point is the final scene, with its moonlit love-making; although it takes place at night, not all the king's horses and all the king's men could turn this scene into something "dark" or "black...
...play, a poorly shaped play. This is not to say that it isn't a good play when seen in the context of all plays, but just that, within the oeuvre of Shakespeare himself, it falls qualipatively well down in the bottom half of his output. No matter what approach one brings to the work, there is a shift of tone between the first four acts and the fifth. The material for a black-comedy interpretation is undeniably present in the text; when it is tapped to the hilt, though, the ines-capable gap now becomes a gulf...
...Role of Shylock," which he wrote for the 1958 Laurel edition of the work, and which I highly recommend. Carnovsky's 1967 Shylock is a considerably less sympathetic figure than the 1957 one, though by no means thoroughly odious. This change is quite in keeping with Kahn's new approach to the rest of the dramatis personae...
Where Galbraith fails, however, is in his attempt to outline an alternative approach--the so-called "moderate solution"--to the Vietnam...