Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't care about what this stuff was about would write a report and let it go at that," says Simon, who worked with Bok in the Army. "That's what most people in the Pentagon did. But he persevered with a moral passion and changed a lot of bad rules...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial. "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...induce it. "The twentieth century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.). Now onesuch might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical and a romantic, but then...
Unfortunately, drawing the line between illegal distortion and just plain bad distortion probably impossible. Such contracts run the risk of outlawing appropriate improvements and adjustments, crippling creativity, and sapping the vitality of theater for future generations. If, to protect themselves, authors must state detailed production criteria, it is better to grant generous production rights rather than handcuff directors. Such artistic freedom will, in the long run, benefit theater. And it is worth the risk of an occasional wayward production...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: BORN IN THE U.S.A. (Columbia). Songs about bad memories and blind hope: rock record of the year...