Word: boors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with effects similar to mescaline) to help uproot Cary's deepest psychological problems. Often called instant analysis, LSD cleans out the subconscious like lye in a septic tank. Impressed with his own progress under its influence, Grant delivered a confessional lecture at U.C.L.A.: "I was a self-centered boor," he told an audience of fascinated students. "I was masochistic and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, 'There must be something wrong with me,' I grew up." In a subsequent interview he explained how he grew up: "Because I never understood myself...
...evening of good drama, one could do worse than the Experimental Theatre production of Chekhov's The Boor and J.M. Barrie's The Twelve Pound Look. Barrie's play, though sentimental--even silly--achieves in its ending what it fails to do throughout. Its O. Henry twist gives a tearful 19th century play (by the creator of Peter Pan) a comic result and provides a vehicle for some very good acting...
...Boor, a farce on love and money, was amusing--and not all the credit for this goes to Chekhov. In a play which portrays such comic explosiveness of temperament and such undercutting (and yet tolerance) of sentiment, it was an intellectual pleasure to see amateurs capture so many of the emotional innuendoes. The stylization of Joanne Koch Schmelzer, her movements, her voice, her expression, were something to behold. Harry Knopf, as Luca, an old man, weak and frail, was very fine (and was an example of Knopf's versatility for those of us who remember...
...Tuckerman home, an amateur artist who married money on his first European escape 23 years before. Denery is not only insensitive to the real difficulties of the people around him, but to the damage that time does to those who are not living well. A busy, opportunistic boor, Denery causes a small-town scandal that wrecks Sophie's engagement; yet throughout his spree, it is difficult for Constance to reconsider the love she felt for him years...
...fictional American in Europe is apt to be a boor, a nincompoop, or else a sudden convert to the notion that his home soil is spiritually sterile. Even Henry James, the foremost author in the field, wrote less from an observer's strength than from a vantage point uneasily anchored in an inferiority complex. Talented Novelist Elizabeth Spencer (The Voice at the Back Door) does not entirely escape the compulsion to prove that as a sensitive U.S. writer, she understands the gaucherie of her countrymen. But The Light in the Piazza is one of the best novels...