Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Experiences with stillborn productions seem to dominate Seldes' career. On one level, The Bright Lights relates the story of an actress who has never quite made it. Although she is a Tony-award winner, she is not a star: the average theater goer would not recognize her name--a fact Seldes herself realizes. Often, she evaluates her career with humor...
Frequently, however, the comments are less flippant. She recalls a beloved director early in her career and his conviction that she would become a star, and she adds "I have worked continuously, but I was not able to live out his dreams for me as an actress." She imagines a less-beloved director in the less distant past classifying her as a "talented but disappointed actress...
...large number of Jewish comedians in relation to their percentage of the population, I do think there is one point that you overlooked completely: the total lack of any humor in the Christian religions. Naturally those who are exposed to less merriment will be less likely to pursue a career in comedy...
...think the race is getting to be more fun all the time," says William Clements, the multimillionaire oil-drilling contractor who is running for Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate wins, the taxpayers are sure to get some relief...
Groups pushing one cause only are growing both in number and political importance. They tend, in a time of fading political parties, to dominate the debate of all problems and often prevail in the resolution. They have become the undertakers for the professional politician's career and the manipulators of legislative bodies. What they cannot achieve by law they are often willing to achieve by defiance. They have, most of them, an aversion to cooperation, conciliation and compromise...