Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brechtian narrator-figure, The Common Man, follows a scene marked by particularly sloppy blocking, which has Miller putting his arms around everyone in sight. But the action soon starts to pick up when More confronts Cardinal Wolsey (craftily portrayed by Chris Clemenson), who warns him of the potential conflict between private conscience and the demands of state...
...second act, in which that conflict is realized, attains to a high dramatic intensity, thanks both to Miller's finesse and a superlative performance by Dan Riviera as Thomas Cromwell. In a world populated almost exclusively by shifty, power-crazed and unreliable characters, Riviera's Cromwell outshifts them all. Here is a courtier who could have given Machiavelli lessons. His fingers heavy with rings, his mouth twitching contempt, Riviera is every inch the master of ruthless pragmatism, as uncomfortable with More's unswerving integrity as More is with the vicissitudes of court politics...
...being run largely by three longtime Hughes associates: Bill Gay, Nadine Henley and Chester Davis. Emerging as a power is Will Lummis, Hughes' 47-year-old nephew, who is a Houston lawyer. He was named Summa's board chairman last August in a deal to avoid conflict between Hughes' Houston heirs and the ruling triumvirate at Summa. But the relationship is showing signs of strain. Recently, Lummis began and ended a board meeting before Davis arrived...
...problems that have beset the university during the past several months. Faculty and student outcry against the administration's lethargy in settling the strike, and its insistence on making an example of the arrested students, had intensified as the month of October dragged on, with no resolution of the conflict in sight...
Spender claims that the conflict between this democratic ideal and the fact of the poet's insignificance and irrelevance in American society leaves him relatively impotent and foiled. "The authorities," he writes, "provide American writers with honor, money, flattery. The one thing they do not do is take their work seriously, because literature is not an influence within the area of public consideration and policy." The poet is left to communicate only with those who already agree...