Word: conceit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beerbohm once concocted a curtain line for which there was no play: "I'm leaving for the Thirty Years' War!" Poor Max. He did not live to see his conceit turned to good use. His line could -and should-be attached to The Last Valley like a tin can tied to a jalopy...
...tells how he lost his temper with a patient who refused to let him cut into a vein for a transfusion; he assumes full responsibility for an operation that resulted in the death of another. Nor does he hide his pride in his growing proficiency. "A surgeon needs conceit," he says. "He needs it to sustain him in trying moments when he's battered by the doubts and uncertainties that are part of the practice of medicine." Nolen, who earned every bit of it, is plainly grateful for his conceit. His patients should...
...attempt to brag about your "special gift to homogenize a diverse society" in your "American Notes" [Oct. 26] at the moment when your neighbor is burying a murdered leader is the height of cruelty and conceit. Undoubtedly there were Canadians who expressed feelings other than anguish when American leaders were murdered-but for those of us who consider you a friend, your words are senseless. You owe us a retraction...
...film employs a fashionable conceit: behind their separate training and tradition, it claims, both captains are existential twins. Balderdash. The very casting works against the theme. Griem conveys a zeal that has crystallized into fanaticism. As for Keith, he can never adopt any posture for long without questioning it. His ironic underplay is, in fact, the strength of the drama. Even with lesser actors, Director Lament Johnson could have provided a crisp, driving movie. With this cast, The McKenzie Break deserves far better than its current saturation booking...
...call these efforts plays is a massive overstatement. They offer nothing more than a two-hour supply of mouth froth, a dentifrice rather than a drama. Vonnegut's cute conceit has been to debunk the Ulysses myth in terms of the Hemingway legend. As Vonnegut sees it, war is a kind of priapic transplant for men whose sexual insecurity demands the bolstering arsenal of the sword, the gun, the hunt and the kill. As amateur psychologizing, that may be perfectly acceptable; as drama, it turns out to be perfectly dreadful...