Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fall & the Fallout. The Apple is a sample, not the best, or the worst, of an avant-garde movement that has been called "the theater of the absurd." It is a school whose major defect stems from its chief virtue: it fashions hypnotic images of disorder to convey the sense of a disordered world. But the essence of dramatic art, as of all art, is to impose order on chaos. Flawed, shapeless, often inarticulate, the theater of the absurd nonetheless does generate excitement. In its surreal, evocative way, it tries to grapple with the way things are now, with...
...tone of voice that is much too positive to ever lose itself in the squalor and pain it deals with. Miller would destroy modern culture, yes; but he is in control of the destruction, and not vice versa. The images of cancer, of decay, that run through the book convey the point very well. The world is falling apart, getting even worse than ever; but Miller's voice is almost exultant...
...rhythm as The Little Train; nor is it easy to see why Yale sang it, and a worthless Swiss yodel song as well. And to top it off, they sang Fenno Heath's settings of three Blake poems, which employ only the most common place harmonies and rhythms and convey little of the poems' meanings. Indeed, several of the Whiffenpoofs' own songs were more imaginative. Heath's arrangements of two American folksongs were better, but his programming does not exploit the quality of his chorus...
...National Press Club luncheon how he could sit on the fence in a conflict between right and wrong, he sighed wearily. "There are far too many greys in this world," he said. "A politician may aim at the right-he may even perceive the right-but he must convey that perception to others to function. A saint need not-therefore he is often stoned to death...
Capping it all was tea with Nina Petrovna Khrushchev at the Moscow House of Friendship. Russia's first lady remained friendly even when one of her guests asked her, over apples and chocolates, to "convey to your husband the deep concern we feel that within the past month the Soviet Union has tested 17 atom bombs...