Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid the schematization which cripples adventures into ironic dramatic montage. White Sale is in no sense didactic, and the ironies which arise out of the juxtapositions of its sequences have nothing to do with simple undercutting. For White Sale, irony becomes an instrument of investigation, not a tool of argument. And it is through irony that White Sale's vision of Cambridge, as a unique state of mind and as a microcosm of American society, is exposed. The primary irony is, after all, the conception itself. A show which propels an audience from the insular range of Cambridge...
...begin with, the argument goes, the academic's unique contribution to reform lies in his knowledge--accumulated through research. As Sizer puts it, "There has got to be recognition of the peculiar contribution a university can make in a time of social relocation. And one of our peculiar purposes is research." The Ed School has no service responsibility, and correspondingly, concrete activity in the ghetto or elsewhere is only a means to the end of securing generalized knowledge...
...theory that a genetic abnormality may predispose a man to antisocial behavior, including crimes of violence, is deceptively and attractively simple, but will be difficult to prove. The argument in its favor rests upon the fact that in a few prisons sampled in the U.S., Britain and Australia, the proportion of inmates with an extra Y chromosome has been found to be higher than in the general population. The objections to the theory are that no one knows the true incidence of the extra-Y abnormality, and that even when it is shown to exist, no one knows...
...Schuller makes a most persuasive case for the argument that the beauties of jazz "are those of any great, compelling musical experience: expressive fervor, intense artistic commitment and an intuitive sense for structural logic." Who knows? If the slipper fits, music's Cinderella may one day even go to live in the castle of esthetic status, cultural respectability and all that...
...best. Eddying about the pivotal encounters, however, is Shaw's depiction of the varied and colorful life of the Egyptian court and Roman camp. These physical details call for the best sort of visualization and stage realization, and I wonder how much they would contribute either to the dramatic argument or the comic effect of the play in even the best production. Significantly, and not too unhappily, it is in this area the production is weakest...