Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once did, Albee has cultivated a Jamesian languor in his prose, a fastidious dandyism of manner, a dusty, librarefied reserve. Portentousness of delivery is used to mask vacuity of thought. In his latest play, All Over, we instantly recognize him for what he now is -the club bore...
...READ Stuart Vaughan's book A Possible Theatre is to wonder how anyone ever managed to procure his services as the first Visiting Professor in theater at Harvard University. Within the first two chapters, he makes several bitter attacks on "academic theatre," using such terms as "a bore," "an evasion," and (my favorite) "fierce suspicion." I can't say that I disagree with his terms, but I am glad that he decided to come: the current production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, directed by Vaughan, is certainly the best thing to appear on the Loeb mainstage in some...
This week the Monthly and Fledgling Editor Charles Peters will receive a George Polk award for an article revealing Army-intelligence surveillance of U.S. civilians involved in protests and political activity. The Jan. 1970 article bore other significant fruit: the congressional hearings held before Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (see THE NATION). Of perhaps greater long-range importance to the Monthly's future is that it is being noticed where it matters. It is must reading at the White House, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the Government. The praise of NBC's John Chancellor, former director...
...camels and bullocks, and most often on foot. There were youths in bell-bottoms voting for the first time, and newlyweds who married in the morning and voted in the afternoon. A 110-year-old woman was carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk business. When a cow gave birth to a calf outside a polling booth, everyone hailed it as a good omen. Officials of the New Congress Party, whose symbol is a cow nursing...
...simply compound the image for me. A lot of people sitting around making an exhibition of themselves. What I hate is that whole superstructure and the phony suspense and the crying actor clutching the statue to his bosom and all of that crap. It's all such a bloody bore...