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This may not be everyone's idea of how to spend a little under an hour in the theater, but for anyone who wants to seek out and comprehend the deepest wellsprings of drama, it is an hour well spent. Within the past two weeks, Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where The Grey Lady Cantata is housed, has offered playgoers: Subject to Fits (a free-form fantasy based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Slag (claustrophobic feminine hysteria in a decaying British girls' school) and Here Are Ladies (see below). The handsome landmark building on Lafayette Street...
...been without their small pleasantries. In any case, they are at least harmless. Rhinestones in the Rough, on the other hand, demands no tolerance, for it is nasty and insulting. The sniggering in Page Grubb's book is aimed at women, radicals, and (for reasons I fail to comprehend) Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Henry Ford was angry: his engineers had presumed to design a replacement for the already obsolescent Model T. They could not comprehend that the Model T was sacrosanct. Neither could they understand why Ford had pursued the idea of a car for the masses so singlemindedly, nor why it meant so much to him that he allowed no important change in it until 1927, after it had been overtaken by competitors. They never knew, either, why success turned him mean and vindictive. Now Anne Jardim, a social psychologist, has attributed this strange behavior to Ford's unwarranted conviction that...
...school. Dunstan Ramsay is a solitary man but not a recluse, one of those singlehanded voyagers who is happy enough to socialize in port, but who never spends much time there. The seas he is driven to cross are strange and not much traveled; his lifelong obsession is to comprehend the condition of sainthood...
...Vogelsinger did not deny the advantage Harvard and Yale had over other New England schools because of the educational calibre of the players. "These guys can comprehend sophisticated plays and strategy. If you are honest with an extremely intelligent player, you can do things with him that aren't possible with a less sophisticated player...