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Word: believingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The trial of Charles Manson and his tribe was from the beginning like a species of absurdist theater. The defense, in effect, was no defense at all. The lawyers representing Manson and the three women charged with the Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders had no outside witnesses to help their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Life with Father | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

The most one-dimensional character in the play is Claudius, played by Jonathan James-Moore. He is a boring fellow, reciting his lines in perfect meter without much expression, even when he is supposed to show remorse. Miller has done more violence to him than any other, for the director...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Theatre Hamlet | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

I have been both surprised and shocked at the extent to which people in the Harvard community have been upset with Chris Durang's The Greatest Musical Ever Sung, and I write at this late date [Dec. 14] only because hostile letters have appeared so recently in the CRIMSON. As...

Author: By The Sanutuary, | Title: 'A GOOD LAUGH' | 1/5/1971 | See Source »

The adults suffer, too. They learn that it is respectable to deceive. What person is more admired than he who goes through all the motions of Santa for his kids and keeps them believing it for a long time? But the adults are subconsciously acting out their resentment which resulted...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

BESIDES ITS laughable melodramatic contrivance, the most glaring flaws of the film grow out of its unconvincing psychology. Sarah is an American ideal: unquestionably believing in her lover's dreams, she gives her life completely over to him. Danny is, as Sarah's father derisively claims, a middle-class Jesus...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Films riverrun at the Orson Welles | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

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