Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While The Day Room can be faulted for what it tries to be, it cannot be faulted for its ultimate success--as a clever, witty series of surprises and startling situations. Larger issues aside, the inhabitants of the asylum and their quest for a better reality make for an intriguing psychological mystery. Gradually the audience realizes that it is witness to an elaborate game; but what kind of game, and who's playing, remain elusive questions...
...know that when Mr. Coors arrives Wednesday to speak at the Science Center he will be prepared to tell some clever lies about his company and those who oppose its practices. But if Harvard students want to maintain possession of the moral high ground they earn by protesting such villainous characters, they will have to make sure that their protests do not get out of hand. In an open community it is simply unacceptable to curtail the freedom of speech of any speaker, unless he is trying to incite violence through his remarks...
...hard to fight a man, because he is as clever as you are. He has arrows and a spear. He is as tricky as you are. And besides, a person has friends, and if you kill him, his friends can kill you! It is more complicated...
...mathematics is sometimes so well hidden as to be nearly invisible. But at its best Square One finds clever and disarming ways of bringing dry subjects to life. In a sketch to illustrate the properties of the number zero, for example, the despondent numeral visits a psychoanalyst. "I'm just a nothing," he sobs. Zero added to any other number, he explains, adds nothing; when placed to the right of a decimal point, it even makes a number smaller. The supportive shrink reminds his patient of zero's important role: "What about multiplication? Zero times any number is zero. Think...
...science fiction, so I set the plot in the future, 10 years after a peaceful takeover of the Soviet Union by an American--i.e., me. As I wrote, churning out page after page of dialogue, I was surprised by my own inventiveness. The plot was so unique and so clever that I was forced to surmise the world had never seen its like before...