Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the reader is left wondering what Prince really does believe, it's easy to sympathize with his ambivalence. There's something seductive about big, flashy star-studded musicals with lots of dancing and songs that you sing to yourself on the way out of the theater--Damn Yankees, West...
When this play was first produced in the '30s, the Natural Man enjoyed something of a vogue. Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape, Hemingway's grunting heroes and Steinbeck's wretched Okies were the common components of tragedy. But even milestones can erode with the...
I liked Sever from the start. As a freshman, I didn't know architects did too. But a lunchtime compatriot with a panache he could pass off as a plume of knowledge deigned to explain Sever's deficiences. It's awkward and contradictory, he explained. Look at the round turrets...
They include a section on what the letter calls "ethical development" in which students make moral decisions in contrived situations.
The musicians seem eager to perform and the occasional pauses are strictly for the musician to have time to choose his next selection, not some contrived union or contractual obligation.