Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing the actors with water. Far from complaining, the youthful cast seemed caught up in his energy. When Jon Finch was not starring as Macbeth, he would hop on a horse and ride in the background...
...Sealed Envelopes. A few members of Congress have protested vigorously against the spreading cloak of governmental secrecy, notably Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who is concerned about national security affairs, and Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who regards the proliferation of domestic intelligence activities as a serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually...
What is necessary, above all, is a redressed balance in the approach of Government to the public. Secrecy is all too often used as an easy cover for operational failures, as a mask for individual or collective mistakes in policymaking, as a shield for actual wrongdoing and as a cloak to hide the undertaking of new and often costly commitments. In part, the prevalence of covert dealings indicates that the different branches of Government simply do not trust one another very much these days. Can an atmosphere of greater confidence within the Government be achieved? Fortunately there is a pattern...
Seething Anger. According to another theory, the impediment is a symptom of buried hostility. Says Psychologist Murry Snyder, executive director of New York City's Speech Rehabilitation Institute: "Underneath the cloak of inhibition and mild manner, the stutterer often seethes with anger." In support of this theory, he and others note that the stutterer can be fluent, and usually is, in circumstances that do not require him to communicate his own feelings: when he is an actor, for example, delivering someone else's words to an audience of strangers...
Candid Display. In the contemporary theater there is usually some attempt to cloak the evening's activities in a lofty rationale of protest. The Dirtiest Show in Town emits the mandatory blasts at the Viet Nam War, air pollution, urban blight and computerized conformity. So what else is new? Something of durable human concern and curiosity that cannot be graphically described: scenes of fornication, cunnilingus, fellatio, communal couplings and a candid display of homosexual and lesbian preferences...